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)