Is this just about self interest
Because ultimately if all the Scottish working class care about are themselves then that's all it can ever be. I doubt independence will do the Scottish poor any favours, and by removing 59 parliamentary seats which are overwhelmingly anti Tory from the UK parliament, they are also condemning the rest of the British poor to many more decades of austerity and cronyism.
I'd also challenge what you even define as the Left, because it's a very broad brush indeed, and the interviewee is extremely subjective on this issue...
(, Mon 19 Apr 2021, 12:23, Reply)
I'll be sad to see Scotland leave for the endless tory reason, but I'll probably emigrate there if they do, for the endless tory reason
and for the healthcare, social safety net, EU membership, a denuclearised navy, etc.
I think Scottish independence would benefit everyone in Scotland fairly rapidly. It would fuck England, but it would be our fault.
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Mon 19 Apr 2021, 14:38,
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Scottish independence is not condemning the "rest of the British poor" to anything. The rest of the UK has freely chosen Brexit, Johnson and his right wing populist nonsense itself.
What's driving the independence movement is the realisation that the political majority in the rest of the UK wants to go in a fundamentally different direction from the majority in Scotland (and I'm talking about the broader approach to social policy and how you do politics, not specific narrow party allegiances here). Eventually you come to the conclusion that's not changing any time soon, and it's better to let cohesive national groups make their own, different choices about how they organise themselves.
(, Mon 19 Apr 2021, 22:07, Reply)