No divorce…
…for Scotland and Great Britain.
The financial markets, which don’t like chaos and change, are happy.
David Cameron, who agreed two years ago to the vote and then watched the gap close ominously, is relieved.
The crucial factor was turnout:
…[T]he win for the “no” campaign came to down to high voter turnout in areas that tended to support staying with the U.K. At the same time, areas with higher support for independence, such as Glasgow and Dundee, had relatively low voter turnout. Turnout in Glasgow was 75%, which is low compared with other districts that saw turnout above 90%.
Wow, I almost hit my vote call on the nose. I ended up actually underestimating the NO vote by a true“smidgen”.
Scotland the Brave, wasn t so brave after all.
It would have made for interesting entertainment on the world stage. Quebec has this same type of referendum every few years, it always gets voted down too.
Puerto Rico has had somewhat similar ‘status’ votes. They have been blow-outs for the status quo.
Some Hawaiian fanatics want a vote on leaving the Union — with only Polynesian blood quantums determinative for voter qualification. Crazy, I know.
Oh well. Back to chowing down on my morning Haggis.
If precariously, sanity yet reigns in the land of heather and kilts.
MollyNH, good comparison to the Quebec votes. I suspect that many English, when contemplating the exit of the Scots, have a similar opinion that many in Anglophone Canada have towards the exit of Quebec: good riddance.
I spent a post-operative day in a Boston hospital around the time of a Quebec referendum. A fellow patient was of French Canadian descent, as many are in Mass. He did not have a high opinion of those Quebecois seeking independence: in his words, “my froggy friends.” From someone of French Canadian origin.
I don’t know if it is true, but I have read that one influence increasing the NO vote was the Queen advising her Scottish subjects to think very carefully before voting.
Gringo, I imagine this will be an issue again in 10 or 20 yrs.
6% more wanted the welfare. Similar to those voting for Hussein, a 50/50 split more or less.
Basically, if you are on welfare, you can turn out the vote. If you aren’t and need to work, voting for independence that may or may not cost you your job and lifestyle, is probably less than ideal.