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COX on 08 June 2016
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Ka-pi96 said:
COX said:

" If the whole of Scotland/Northern Ireland/Wales voted to stay then that would be more than enough to beat the EU haters"

Have you ever seen 100% for something in a referendum ? It is not about unanimity but about majority and if the majority of Scotland and Northern Ireland want to stay in the EU they should be able to stay in the EU.  

"If they wanted to stay that much they'd all just vote in this referendum." 

At this time a Brexit seemed much more unlikely than today.  

Sorry first I taught that you were talking about the referendum where Scotland decided to stay in the UK. 

Well it wouldn't even need to be 100%, as long as it was a large majority (as you're suggesting it would be) in those countries that would rather remain in the EU then that alone would make a big difference in the referendum.

Besides, what makes Scotland/Northern Ireland so special? If you're saying that they should be able to stay in the EU if the majority want to, then what about other areas? What if the majority of London, or the North East, or Cornwall or anywhere else want to stay but they still lose the referendum?

What makes Scotland and Northern Ireland special is that they are not areas of England but part of UK. If Great Britain wants to leave EU I don't see why Scotland et NI souldn't have the same right to leave UK if they are not statisfied  by the current state of this "Union".