I heard that Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales leaders are planning to meet to break up UK. Is it really true? Anyone from UK here who can tell me what is actually happening there?

  • slazer2au@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    I haven’t looked at it recently but it was a close vote, like withing a couple percentage points.
    I doubt any of the current parties have the political capital to run the vote again in the near future.

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      17 hours ago

      The Scottish wanted to do a new vote after the Brexit was voted in, but that was quickly shut down by the UK government.

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        8 hours ago

        It was understood to be a once in a generation vote. People can’t just leave in a strop just because things change. That’s what things do.

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          6 hours ago

          Sure, but “things change” sounds like something relatively minor, Brexit was a major history altering event.

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              4 hours ago

              It isn’t about convenience.

              I could make the same argument for the Scottish trying to recast their “once in a generation” vote. Also, a generation is about twenty years, so for the sake of arguing you could expect another vote in 2034.