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Scottish independence has to move with the times

The movement for independence finds itself in a very different context to 2014.

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Yes campaign office on Skye, 2016: By John Allan, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Scotland has in recent times liked to see itself as progressive, democratic and European.

What’s so special about that you might think? A bit like apple pie and being kind to animals. But these undoubtedly mainstream values were rightly seen as increasingly at odds with the direction of the UK in the last few decades. The UK wasn’t any of these things and this has become even more pronounced and obvious since the Brexit vote.