In Northern Ireland, a majority — 51 per cent to 44 per cent — want a referendum about the border within the next five years. And unionists hold only a slender lead over those who want a united Ireland now — 47 per cent to 42 per cent — but another 11% are undecided, enough to threaten the future of the UK.
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Northern Irish voters also think there will be a united Ireland within 10 years by a margin of 48 per cent to 44 per cent.
The Scottish poll, conducted by Panelbase, found that the SNP is on course for a huge landslide in the Scottish parliament elections due in May — likely to be the trigger for a new political crisis.
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Today’s Panelbase survey puts the independence vote on 49 per cent, five points ahead of the unionists, with 7 per cent of voters undecided. With the don’t knows removed, that’s a 52 per cent to 48 per cent win for Sturgeon’s team.
YouGov, which conducted the surveys in Wales and England, found that support for Welsh independence has grown to 23 per cent — up from the teens five years ago.
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Lol, if you told me I would live to see the break up of the UK I would’ve been nonplussed
english people complaining about brussel taxes or whatever even though the uk could probably veto anything they wanted purely on their position in the eu leading to the fall of the united kingdom would be a really funny turn of events
They literally had more power in the EU than out of it. Absolute morons.
It would be hilarious if Scotland, Ireland, and Wales all broke away and joined the EU
I do wonder if they'd be allowed in, or if the EU is afraid of encouraging separatist sentiment in e.g. Catalonia
or if the EU is afraid of encouraging separatist sentiment
Strange that the EU doesn't seem to be afraid of fostering separatist sentiment in places where people aren't white :thinkin-lenin:
I hope so but with the way things are going I wouldn't be surprised if we just got the troubles 2.0 with Scotland joining in on the fun.
troubles 2.0 with Scotland joining in on the fun.
BBC circa 2030:
...Home Minister Farage denies that any of the 3 million Irish and Scots semi-voluntarily housed in temporary group accommodation halls have been in any way mistreated.
In other news, China continues its campaign of genocide against the Uighur people with the introduction of free university education across the region. Experts claim that teaching Muslims science and engineering is a form of cultural genocide due to the shape of the Islamic skull which...
Would an independent Scotland loosen up their immigration policies at all? My dream would be to move over there sometime
Probably. Scots independence view themselves as civic nationalists and would therefore try to create a national identity based on values rather than ethnicity. This might prove to be difficult given that >95% of the population is white.
