Support for Scottish independence in the wake of the Brexit referendum
is now effectively neck-and-neck, according to a new poll released
Wednesday (8 February).
The survey, for the Herald newspaper in Glasgow, puts support for independence at 49% and for the status quo at 51%, excluding don’t knows.
It comes against a backdrop of British Prime Minister successfully getting through a parliament a bill allowing MPs to vote on a final Brexit deal – but with very little consultation or safeguards against a so-called ‘Hard Brexit.’
Whilst still showing a theoretical victory for the status quo, it is within a statistical margin of error – and compares with the 2014 referendum result of 45% for independence and 55% against.
The seismic vote by the UK as a whole – but not Scotland, Northern Ireland or Gibraltar – to leave the EU last year has brought fresh pressure on the Scottish National party minority government in Edinburgh to hold a fresh referendum.
That has increased with confirmation from Theresa May that Brexit will mean leaving the single market, and – as yet – no deal on the rights of EU workers in the UK, and vice-versa.
Alex Salmond, the SNP’s former leader, first minister, and foreign affairs spokesman for the party at the Westminster parliament, tweeted the result with the words “Game On.”
Read M<ore: Scottish independence now neck-and-neck, new post-Brexit poll shows – EurActiv.com
The survey, for the Herald newspaper in Glasgow, puts support for independence at 49% and for the status quo at 51%, excluding don’t knows.
It comes against a backdrop of British Prime Minister successfully getting through a parliament a bill allowing MPs to vote on a final Brexit deal – but with very little consultation or safeguards against a so-called ‘Hard Brexit.’
Whilst still showing a theoretical victory for the status quo, it is within a statistical margin of error – and compares with the 2014 referendum result of 45% for independence and 55% against.
The seismic vote by the UK as a whole – but not Scotland, Northern Ireland or Gibraltar – to leave the EU last year has brought fresh pressure on the Scottish National party minority government in Edinburgh to hold a fresh referendum.
That has increased with confirmation from Theresa May that Brexit will mean leaving the single market, and – as yet – no deal on the rights of EU workers in the UK, and vice-versa.
Alex Salmond, the SNP’s former leader, first minister, and foreign affairs spokesman for the party at the Westminster parliament, tweeted the result with the words “Game On.”
Read M<ore: Scottish independence now neck-and-neck, new post-Brexit poll shows – EurActiv.com
