BREXIT

[VNA]

mtread, did you predict the result of the EU referendum correctly? A simple yes or no will do.

Can I answer this one too?  Please?   Can I go back to 2014?   Remember the 2014 referendum.


I stayed up all night for the 2014 one.  Sure I wanted a YES result, and everybody around me thought it was in the bag but I knew it was very unlikely.  And yup early on during the night the clues started coming that all was not well.  I figured anything above 40% was a result, a victory in fact and something to take forwards.  So whilst I was disappointed, and surrounded by folks who appeared to want to top themselves, I was also pleasantly surprised by 45%, almost half the country felt the way I did.  I still think it was a stunning result.  Was a strange night.


2016?  The polls said it was safe.  But I have to say I had a bad feeling in the closing days of the campaign.  Didn’t stay up.  But I do remember again having that bad feeling as I stood in the kitchen in front of the radio, pausing, slightly scared to turn it on.  Then foc foc foc foc foc!


At least there was something positive to take from 2014. 



If the current situation is not resolved, and Scotland does not maintain continued single market access, the Scottish parliament has the justification to hold a second Indy referendum.  There is a potential majority in the parliament to do this, with or without Westminster’s permission.


But which is more import.  Binning BREXIT and continued full EU membership comes before Independence.  I do not want to see the UK economy trashed.