Scottish independence referendum results thread (Sept 18, 2014)

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This is exciting. It must be strange for our Scottish members that half the forum is more emotionally invested in the outcome than they are, though.

How many Forum posters are actually from Scotland ?

afleitch, bore, ... ?

Yeah, me and afleitch are the only Scots on the forum.

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BBC Scotland is better than BBC London.

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Firstly, why do you think it has that name? Second, they had a problem with getting some of the boxes to the counting centre: there was a crash on the road they were being brought on, delaying things by a couple of hours.

The Guardian website lists it as "Highland," in fairness.

I think the point is that it's hardly surprising that it's difficult and takes a long time to transport ballots around an area called highlands, due to, you know, the hills.

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The only thing that could justify a referendum in the short run would be it becoming clear that no more powers were being devolved.

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If we're talking another referendum in case London either goes back on its word on devolution max, or devolves too few powers to the Scottish Parliament to satisfy either the nationalists or the unionists, I imagine that Scotland will stick with its 700-year anniversary pattern.  With 1314 out of the way, here are some possibilities:

1325: first year the Parliament of Scotland convened

1328: King Edward II signs Treaty of Northampton acknowledging Scottish independence under the rule of King Robert the Bruce (Edward reneged on it later upon Robert's death)

1341: Taking advantage of English distraction with the Hundred Years War, King David II (King Robert's son and heir) returns from exile in France to claim the Scottish throne, securing Scotland's independence
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So perhaps 2028 seems most likely.  




 

One year a pattern does not make.

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Thanks for the figures

I don't know that much about Glasgow, and no doubt afleitch can correct me if I'm wrong, but the thing that strikes me there is how similar they are. I'd have thought there'd be pretty big social and economic differences between the constituencies,so I'm surprised there's only a 7 point spread.