| Stefan.De.Machtige said: "Mr Salmond's deputy, Nicola Sturgeon, said in an earlier concession statement that there was a "real sense of disappointment that we have fallen narrowly short of securing a 'Yes' vote" Lol, 10 % difference is not narrowly short. |
It was a 5% swing. Which is certainly not a major proportion.
| MikeRox said: Its important to remember 45% didn't want independence. A good chunk of them wanted to stick it to the Tories and to hell with the consequences. Hopefully it might finally make the main parties realise there is discourse with the current status quo throughout the UK though. But somehow I doubt it. Until a week before a referendum suddenly 51% of the UK became in favour of abolishing parliament... |
Look at the 9th point on this list.
the2real4mafol said:
I don't get why people assume this. Apart from free university, how are they supposedly milking us English people? |
Thank you for this respectful comment. I was told to go kill myself by somebody on youtube, because he assumed I was a Yes voter.
| Pyro as Bill said: 1.6M people is 2.5% of the UK population. There are more English people who wanted the Scots to go independent than Scots. Meanwhile it's all kicking off in Glasgow tonight. Anyone suprised? |
Italics: Not surprising that a higher number of English than Scots, given the MASSIVE difference in population. Scotland only has 8.3 million people, less than 5 million of which are registered to vote and, from the turnout, 45% of which were pro-independence. I'm sure if you polled the English, you would not have a 45% pro-independence return.
Glasgow: No, I'm not. Sadly, Sectarianism and extreme unionism has reared its ugly head. A shameful display from the "winners" which I hope is made up for in future days with tolerance and understanding, and a desire to work together.
Sorry for the long post. Even though I was open-minded about the results of this referendum, my country is more divided than ever before. I hope we can move forward together and overhaul Westminster politics.
