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Originally Posted by joeysteele

Interesting analysis but who ever challenged such a view anyway, also by the same token not all constituencies in England voted to leave either.

Odd how now what small areas that voted leave in Scotland,in a large overall result to remain, attract attention while choosing it seems to ignore the issue of the overall vote that we get so much from leave.

The Scots overwhelmingly voted to remain by 62% to 38% of the votes cast,
That is both truth and fact.
A really convincing 24% majority to remain.

Birmingham in England were just about as split down the middle as any result could be across the UK.
One of the largest cities in England with the tiniest of majorities to leave but then almost equally there is Newcastle who recorded a small majority to remain.
Then Manchester who solidly voted to remain.
If we are to look at the individual constituencies now rather than the overall picture, there will always be variations, some larger or smaller than others.


I don't recall anyone saying there were no areas in Scotland that didn't vote leave, all that has been said is Scotland by a large percentage of votes cast, overwhelmingly voted to remain.

Wales voted to leave but areas in Wales voted to remain, in an overall narrow result to leave in the end.

N Ireland Voted to remain but areas there voted to leave too,in an overall result of a 12% margin to remain.

How does that analysis change anything when leave keep telling us that the only thing that should matter is the overall UK result of votes, nothing else.
Up to now they have dismissed Scotland as near irrelevant because it voted to remain anyway.

62% of Scots voted to remain, the First Minister of the Scottish parliament is duty bound to do her utmost to honour that vote and do all she can to protect Scotland's position in the EU and having the best deal for Scotland.
She saw a really decisive result in her Country of the UK,a good double figure percentage to remain.
Nothing in the opening post undermines her position at all as to fighting to honour her Country's 24% majority of voting to remain.


Just as Northern Ireland did too.

To be fair though Joey, as another Scot said on last week's question time, Scotland already voted to stay in the UK, the EU vote they voted as part of the UK. Therefore they have to respect the result the UK gave. It's not a separate vote.