'Brexit changed everything': revisiting the case for Scottish independence

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : To try to sway someone from voting for Brexit was as vain an effort as to try to persuade someone who believed devoutly in god to become an atheist.
58% : A society that supports the most in need with tangible change: from safe affordable housing to the prioritisation of renewable energies.
55% : Ahead of the 2014 independence referendum, the Unionist campaigners told us time and time again that the only way we could continue to be part of the European Union was to remain within the United Kingdom.
48% : The NHS, tax revenue, broadcasting, central banking, hard borders, for example.
47% : It seems to me that, as with Brexit, selling any nation a destiny that is based on emotion rather than coherent, verifiable and falsifiable argument is very, very dangerous.
43% : Yes-Yes man back in 1997, I had begun to feel wary of the uglier rhetoric around nationalism while, as a socialist and a sometime resident of England, I thought that if the usual cohort of egalitarian Scots were to leave Westminster altogether, the cynical and increasingly xenophobic brand of Toryism that had already taken root there would only gain in strength.
42% : Just as Brexit was fuelled by a neo-imperialist, faux-historical dream of English pluck and singularity, so too the idea of Scotland as a new mini-member of the European community seems inspired by similarly fantastical notions.
41% : However, since 2014, the big, unignorable, overweening fact that has changed everything is Brexit.
38% : Brexit became a kind of blind faith to its initiates.

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