Comments by "gerhard7" (@gerhard7323) on "'It's not going to happen’| Neil Oliver on Nicola Sturgeon’s Second Scottish independence referendum" video.

  1. What I find bizarre, particularly as this question was asked (and settled) just over 8 years ago of the Scottish people in a 'once in a generation referendum, is why ScotNats are intent on asking it yet again secure in the knowledge that it could deliver a roughly 50/50 split result either way. This is, at its heart, a hugely divisive, reckless move by Sturgeon that can only sow bitterness and rancour.
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  2.  @lizziestevenson9345  The 2016 referendum was a sovereign UK wide referendum, NOT a non-sovereign Scottish referendum on EU membership. Anymore than it was a non-sovereign English, Welsh or Northern Irish vote on membership. The sovereign UK went into the EC in 1973, not its non-sovereign constituent countries, and the 1975 referendum on continued membership was necessarily again a UK wide vote NOT about how its constituent countries voted in a simple majority vote. None of the constituent countries of the UK are sovereign, including England. Non-sovereign Scotland voted to remain in the sovereign UK in 2014, two years prior to the 2016 UK referendum on EU membership. The EU referendum result is really just being used as an excuse for a second bite of the cherry by ScotNats for a 'once in a generation vote' that it lost only eight years ago. Finally, 1.6m Scots voted to remain in the EU and 1m voted to leave, but presumably those 1m votes don't count for anything if you swallow the ScotNat 'but Scotland voted to remain in the EU' narrative whole, which you obviously do.
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  3.  @lizziestevenson1908  The terms of a referendum are set before it is held. Both the 2014 and 2016 referenda were simple majority referenda and the terms were defined going into them. As I recall I don't recall anyone really having a problem with either until after the event. Presumably you don't wish to see another simple majority referendum deciding Scotland's future on this basis? What do you propose?
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