Scottish independence referendum 2017?

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I genuinely don't know how I'd vote in this, and I hate the SNP and never even considered yes for a moment last time round.

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I genuinely don't know how I'd vote in this, and I hate the SNP and never even considered yes for a moment last time round.

Bit of conflation there. And that was part of the problem last time round. I think this time round Yes will be more cross party. I think Labour might come round this time.

Come on.  You can't take a referendum campaign in a vacuum. In a yes vote the SNP would have been the ones negotiating  and pretty much every election since then shows a 1 to 1 correspondence between SNP support and independence support. Besides, I didn't even conflate them, it's not like I said "I hate the SNP and because of this never even considered yes for a moment", if anything it was the other way round, I never considered yes and because of this (although actually because of a lot of other reasons to) I hate the SNP.

Anyway I don't think Labour will back independence, or even be officially neutral, but I imagine they will be much less gung ho than last time around, especially because most of the people left in the scottish labour party will be very very pro european, so the winds will be taken out of their (and, if I'm, honest, my) sails.

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Looks like Brussels isn't that enamoured with the SNP:

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3660320/NON-EU-slaps-Sturgeon-SNP-leader-dramatically-announces-wants-immediate-discussions-STAY-EU-humiliated-Brussels-says-No-s-not-works.html

This doesn't necessarily mean much, because no one expects Scotland to get all or even most of the UK's many opt outs and they never have. The question is more whether the EU would accept Scotland at all.