Any Scottish users on board yet? I’m curious to discuss Scottish issues but maybe setting out my stall on a UK instance and community already poisons the conversation!
Anyway my question is whether the link between left leaning and progressive politics and Scottish independence can persist. My YES voting friends and relatives see indy as a way to see meaningful policy change because Westminster has failed to deliver progressive governments (not clear exactly how they square away the Corbyn near miss but assume here they view Blair/Starmer as “red tory”). But elsewhere in the west nationalism is closely tied to right wing economics and regressive social policy. With the rise of the Alba party are we seeing cracks in this leftist perception of indy or will it die down?
Really interesting to see PR as a key motivator for you and one other commenter below. The AV referendum defeat was probably the most disappointing democratic event of my life, even worse than brexit or tory GE wins. I also see the system as the root of the problem.