Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Scotland Seeks Independence Again After U.K. 'Brexit' Vote
nbcnews.com ^ | June 24, 2016

Posted on 06/24/2016 7:53:23 AM PDT by Helicondelta

Scotland's government began moves Friday to hold a new referendum on independence from the U.K. after the "Brexit" vote, saying it faced being taken out of the European Union against its will.

Scots voted by 62 percent to 38 percent to remain in the EU, according to Friday's results, in contrast to the overall U.K.-wide result of 52 percent to 48 percent in favor of quitting the bloc.

A majority of voters in Northern Ireland also voted to remain in the EU, suggesting the U.K. faces internal constitutional upheaval as well as a contentious divorce from Brussels.

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: brexit; brixit; europeanunion; libtards; moochers; nato; nicolasturgeon; scotland; scotlandyet; snp; unitedkingdom
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-6061-8081-89 next last

1 posted on 06/24/2016 7:53:23 AM PDT by Helicondelta
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: Helicondelta

They voted to remain in the UK too.

They’ll vote to remain with ANYONE who will pay their bills for them.


2 posted on 06/24/2016 7:55:34 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Helicondelta

lol

These idiots are assuming that people that voted to remain in the EU would want to leave Great Britain.

Wrong.


3 posted on 06/24/2016 7:56:40 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (You can't spell Hillary without using the letters L, I, A, R)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Helicondelta

is that Scotland, CA?


4 posted on 06/24/2016 7:57:03 AM PDT by dontreadthis (I finally came up with this tagline)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Helicondelta

Another benefit of Brexit for England.


5 posted on 06/24/2016 7:57:11 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Helicondelta

Confused about this. Didn’t the SNP agree that the vote already taken would be the last, and they wouldn’t keep demanding another vote until it went their way?


6 posted on 06/24/2016 7:57:34 AM PDT by Genoa
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Helicondelta

They should join with Norway and form a Scandi Union.


7 posted on 06/24/2016 7:58:17 AM PDT by Lisbon1940 (No full-term Governors)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Helicondelta

The English should be the ones to vote on whether Scotland leaves the UK; the Scots had their vote on this already.


8 posted on 06/24/2016 7:59:09 AM PDT by vikingd00d (nulla seruitus turpior est quam uoluntaria -- Seneca)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Helicondelta

It will be interesting to see how the dilemma of remaining with the mystical entitlements of being and EU member juxtapose themselves against the benefits of inclusion with a UK entitlement and support system.

What has to be considered in the cold light of facts is just how ‘self supportable’ is Scotland. Industry, gross regional ‘product’, substantive value that would prompt a bureaucratic EU dealing with the clearly disastrous potential for its most southern partners nearing collapse to consider the added perks and benefits necessary for Scotland to quit UK and go full-bore EU.....

Just my two cents. I don’t think they know what they are doing.


9 posted on 06/24/2016 7:59:27 AM PDT by Gaffer
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Helicondelta

Bah, predictable as rain. Same as the folks who were saying last night that the Brexit means that Ireland is reunified at long last, and Spain has taken back Gibraltar.


10 posted on 06/24/2016 8:00:56 AM PDT by Kriggerel ("All great truths are hard and bitter, but lies... are sweeter than wild honey" (Ragnar Redbeard))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: TexasFreeper2009

The more likely scenario is Ireland joining the UK commonwealth for the first time in more than 60 years. Not abandoning home rule, per se, but getting tighter with England.

What interesting times we live in...


11 posted on 06/24/2016 8:01:27 AM PDT by NohSpinZone (First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: Helicondelta

The EU is failing. Scotland should wait before jumping on a dying horse.


12 posted on 06/24/2016 8:01:45 AM PDT by captain_dave
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: TexasFreeper2009

Supposedly one of the reasons many wanted to stay in the UK was the EU. Now they don’t have at least that reason? So now they want to leave so then they can rejoin the EU. They must really dig the EU?

Freegards


13 posted on 06/24/2016 8:01:51 AM PDT by Ransomed
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: NohSpinZone

That sound MUCH more likely.

But no way in heck is Scotland going to leave the UK completely and be an independent country.


14 posted on 06/24/2016 8:02:35 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (You can't spell Hillary without using the letters L, I, A, R)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies]

To: Helicondelta

Sinn Fein is also pushing for a vote to let Northern Ireland leave the UK and join Ireland.


15 posted on 06/24/2016 8:04:09 AM PDT by Timpanagos1
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Helicondelta

Well, bye.


16 posted on 06/24/2016 8:04:14 AM PDT by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Helicondelta

Scotland wants Independence but has no problem with being invaded by Muslims


17 posted on 06/24/2016 8:04:42 AM PDT by butlerweave
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Buckeye McFrog

It’s all bluster from the SNP. Scotland isn’t leaving GB for an EU run from Berlin.


18 posted on 06/24/2016 8:05:09 AM PDT by lodi90 (Clear choice for Conservatives now: TRUMP or lose)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: Gaffer

Would be interesting to see of all the Moslem migrants now go straight to Scotland.


19 posted on 06/24/2016 8:05:10 AM PDT by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies]

To: TexasFreeper2009
Scotland very knows they are TOO tied to the English economy. They're not leaving--especially when there's a chance Ireland may leave the EU and rejoin the Commonwealth of Nations.
20 posted on 06/24/2016 8:06:12 AM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's Economic Cure)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 14 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-6061-8081-89 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson