Flure and I made the mistake of using trends in our own social circles and utterly shite internal polling data to predict a big win for Yes in 2014. In my social circle there is about the same number of people who voted Yes in 2014 saying they'd vote no in Indyref2 as people moving in the opposite direction. Assuming Hampden Loon's social circle is full of Yes supporting fishermen then he's probably experiencing what he claims.
Woah, woah, woah boys! The independence support is far too small to start turning on each other, and that's two Indy supporters been getting abused on here by other indy supporters in the past 2 days. Keep the heed!
I disagree, it was an awful platform for anyone left leaning. The Yes Campaign argued for EU membership, and corporation tax cuts. The RIC campaigned for independence but rejected the Neoliberal nature of Yes Scotland.
Substitute Racism with Nationalism and you'd have the exact same thing that would have been said to Socialists who voted Yes despite the middle class and corporate orientated Yes campaign. Plenty of socialists felt that the Yes vote was the correct decision at the time.
I've no time for your negativity today. I am currently pumping myself up with the Red Flag and then I'm off to support striking ScotRail staff.
As I've said 1,000,000 times before, the barriers preventing socialism are the exact same in the UK as they would be in an independent Scotland. Both have populations equally opposed to such. In the EU in either makes it impossible.
The UK has just removed itself from a Union which forbids socialism, forces austerity and will soon allow corporations to sue governments if their public services affect profits. It's very hard not to see that as anything other than a victory. Impossible even.