Sturgeon Demands Another Scottish Referendum.

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4310906/Sturgeon-demands-new-Scottish-poll-UK-heads-exit.html

If in the unlikely chance that Scotland did gain it's independence, would there be no opposition to speak of, in the House of Commons?

[murraymints]

sturgeon is currently under attack from within her own party as another referendum is not what is considered a good idea..she is being heavily criticised for neglecting her day job at Holyrood in favour of personal glory...if she is not careful there may be a coup and she will have to walk the plank !

[emmie]

it won't. Ms Sturgeon may think its a good idea, but suggest that many Scots, and that is going on yesterdays news don't relish another referendum.

[bhg481]

If there is another referendum which results in Scotland getting its independence it will take a couple of years to sort the conditions out and enact it. By that time there will have been a General Election in the UK and everything will have changed anyway, so impossible to know..

[emmie]

lots of interesting viewpoints yesterday.

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/News/Question1542928.html

[TWR]

Self Glory, self opinionated woman, yes, I think the plank is getting shorter.

[ladybirder]

Demand Demand Demand. Does she ever do anything else because it doesn't seem so.?

[Khandro]

The excellent Fraser Nelson (himself a Scot) has a point in today's Telegraph, I believe;
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/03/14/nicola-sturgeon-hopes-strike-dream-slips-away/

[emmie]

that is her job, to do the best for Scotland, even if a lot of them don't want independence.

[-Talbot-]

Khandro ... Giz your username and password ya posh geet and I will read it.

[Kromovaracun]

"If in the unlikely chance that Scotland did gain its independence, would there be no opposition to speak of in the House of Commons?"

Yep, I think that's probably likely. Labour historically relied on Scottish seats when in government, and it is an extremely important area for the party. It's not a coincidence that Labour is floundering at the very time they lost it to the SNP, and the Brexit vote has caused extremely serious division in the party.

The only conceivable opposition the government is going to have for the foreseeable future other than the SNP, is from within its own party. The Leave campaign was always split between Boris & Gove's Vote Leave, which portrayed Brexit as a way to increase its economic links with the rest of the world, and Farage's Leave.Eu, which portrayed Brexit as a way to limit immigration and attracted plenty of hard-right Tory backbencher. We can expect a bitter civil war between these groups in the near future - the furore over Heseltine has already started rumours that they are arming up.

But apart from that? All other forms of opposition are looking pretty irrelevant.