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Originally Posted by Nedusa

No sorry this issue is not going anywhere, quite the reverse in fact, with over 1.6 million people voting to leave the Union over 45% the question of independence will not go away and in fact will pick up even more votes as younger voters come of age in Scotland.

If you think everything will go back to the way it was then think again the UK in its current form is as good as over.

It won't even take that long, there's already a huge surge of people questioning their "no" vote due to uncertainty over what's actually going to be offered as "extra powers". If it's not extensive and actually useful to the average Scottish voter... if it's just lip service pieced together because "promises were made"... then if you held another referendum in a year the result would (easily) flip. Opinion polls are showing that the last minute deal brokered by Gordon Brown had a huge impact in the polling booth... if it turns out to be lies or even exaggerations then any future referendum would be as good as won for separation. What could a future Better Together campaign even campaign on, if their campaign this time around was revealed to be a pack of lies?

However, I'm sure there are people tucked away in a little room in Westminster, busily figuring out how to make it impossible or even illegal for another independence opportunity to ever arise... so by the time the population figures out that we're being screwed... it'll be too late to do anything about it. I think Scotland has missed it's one and only opportunity for positive independence. If it ever is a possibility again, it'll be because the UK as a whole is falling apart. This was the last chance to leave before the country is completely broken.

The only thing giving me any hope at the moment, is that it's sparked talk of devolution of regions in England which MIGHT at least be a start. The number one reason that I was in favour of independence was to get away from toxic "one city" London-based politics. If... IF... the UK as a whole can actually manage to successfully decentralize political power in a meaningful and effective way, then I'm not entirely adverse to the UK staying together.

I'm not anti-Union or a Nationalist. I just want people to actually have a say. I'm not content to be quietly ruled by a select elite of plum-mouthed multi-millionaires. I hoped (vaguely, I never truly believed it could happen) for independence because it's the only way I could see for at least a portion of the population to escape that. I don't really believe that the UK ever will.