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Re that last para, I sincerely hope that doesn't happen and the independence movement "sucks in" the middle ground of Scottish voters who regard themselves to be Scottish and part of a sovereign country called Scotland, BUT these people have been "sitting on the fence" looking for assurances that Scotland can "go it alone" and do it far better than a lotta people seem to think. Also we can attain self-determination before a United Ireland ever materialises. Re the NI position, any fool can see that since the damning Brexit vote of 2016 there was a stark difference between English Nationalist Unionism and NI Unionism with different objectives so very apparent. That clash of political ideologies has festered up to now and Unionist unity has fractured and weakened their position in NI. The election of Sinn Fein to be a majority party at Stormont IMO signals the end of the Union. Also the Brit govt is bound by the Good Friday Agreement to legislate for a border poll. The only thing Johnson and his Tory clown show can try to do is delay it for as long as possible. This only makes the outcome of an end of the Union more certain and Sinn Fein, it's leadership and prominent people in the nationalist community will be well aware of this eventually happening.
PS: We've got enough (too many!) toxic Orange marches happening in Scotland during the summer months without having more of these nutters crossing the Irish Sea to give us even more probs.