A recent YouGov poll suggests support for independence is unchanged since the referendum
The 2014 referendum was the opening act in what would become a decade of freewheeling identity politics in Britain has achieved precisely nothing. Today marks a decade since the referendum. In that time we’ve seen anger, vitriol, hope, despair and various degrees of resignation. What was it all for? Nothing. What did it accomplish? Nothing. It’s all been a total waste of time.was the opening act in what would become a decade of freewheeling identity politics in Britain.
You see this throughout history – key moments when everything is reduced to black and white, us and them, loyalist or traitor, yes or no. It happened in France during the clerical oath during the revolution and then again during the Dreyfus Affair. It happened in Germany under Bismarck during Kulturkampf – the first culture war. Now it was happening here.. It was one of the first times we’d seen anger targeted at journalists. And it was, in its way, perfectly predictable.
The SNP opposed Brexit. Its campaigners were some of the most passionate, articulate and effective opponents of the project. But there was a disturbing truth lurking underneath that dynamic. Brexit replicated every aspect of the Scottish independence issue, from the referendum itself to the consequences of it succeeding. If Scotland ever voted for independence, the agonising debate we had in the aftermath of the EU vote would necessarily have to be litigated all over again on a British level.
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