re: #114 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

One of the reason that Scotland voted against independence in 2014 was that it would have left them outside the EU with no guarantee of being let back in.

I voted no in the Independence referendum in large part for that reason. Other factors were the lack of joined-up thinking on the Yes side regarding things like the currency of an independent Scotland — the idea of becoming part of the Eurozone put off a lot of people (not me but it was a problem for a lot of others), the suggestions of sticking with Sterling without the agreement of the rumpUK government was an ill-thought-out mess. There were other things like pensions, right of abode, military forces etc. and some of those issues really needed to have good answers presented during the campaign even if a lot of the details would be sorted out on the run-up to independence day.

I expect the Yes campaign for IndyRef2 to be more thoroughly organised and answers to such issues nailed down beforehand. I could be wrong though, if there’s an IndyRef2 in the next few years I’ll likely vote Yes this time but I do want to see what they come up with first.