How Brexit affects support for independence
The evidence is mixed. Not all of the 60+% who vote to remain in the EU want independence.
What is the effect of Brexit on support for Scottish independence?
The evidence is mixed. The 60+% who voted to remain in the EU are supposed in the main to support independence in the EU. There is a proportion of independence supporters who do not wish to re-join the EU. These two groups seem to cancel each other out. Until the pandemic, increasing support for independence seemed to increase as the problems of Brexit were revealed. Since then Brexit has not been the major force for supporting independence.
Independent wellbeing economy offers hope rather than Brexit chaos
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2021
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Independence offers the only realistic chance of escape from a government seemingly hell bent on damaging our economy
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Brexit and Territorial Preferences: Evidence from Scotland and Northern Ireland
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The paper analyses the support for Scotland's independence and support for Ireland's unification. The harder the border with EU, the more support in Scotland's independence is indicated.
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Brexit and the Scottish Question
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The 2016 Scottish vote for remaining in the EU received no consideration by the UK government for possible special arrangements. The prospect of a new independence referendum gains credibility as the paper shows the constitutional convention on consultation was considered irrelevant by the UK go
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Brexit and the inevitability of Scottish Independence
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Only independence can remove the democratic deficit. Scottish independence is the cosmopolitan choice. There will be some economic damage, uncertainty, and a new currency.
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Scottish independence trading costs calculated
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There may be significant economic costs resulting from independence. However, there is no reason Scotland cannot prosper as other small nations have. This report looks at the cumulative effect over 15 years.
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How Brexit shapes people's views on Scottish independence
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A review of polls at January 2021 shows increasing support for independence, possibly due to Brexit.
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Brexit, nationalism and disintegration in the European Union and the United Kingdom
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2020
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The Brexit referendum opened up conflict between executive, parliamentary, national and popular sovereignties in the differing nations of the United Kingdom and had a noticeable effect on British disintegration.
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