Scotland Independence Referendum

Scotland held an independence referendum in 2014, and the result was to stay in Britain. The Scottish National Party recently filed a suit for another referendum but a British court said "no". The Scottish National Party has referred to the next general election as being a defacto referendum on independence, with Scotland being generally more liberal than England.

I have long thought that it is the party that wants independence and they are trying to drag the population along with them. The recent court decision caused no significant reaction among the people of Scotland. If there had been any widespread wish for independence there would have been demonstrations in the street against the recent court decision. The fact that there wasn't says that there is no great desire for independence.

Polls are not entirely reliable because a person may say they want independence just to sound patriotic and to make sure that the central government doesn't take their loyalty for granted. In the last referendum the polls were much closer than the actual vote, indicating that many people said they wanted independence but then didn't actually vote for it.

The Scottish reaction to the recent court decision, or rather the lack of a significant reaction to it, was a defacto referendum for independence from Britain and the resounding result was NO.