The results across the UK: all of Scotland voted to Remain
It wasn’t close in Scotland. 62% of people voted to stay in the EU, the most decisive margin of any of the UK’s four main countries. A majority in every single Scottish local authority area voted Remain. In this context, the most democratic outcome would be for Scotland to stay in the EU. In fact, I’d go further. Just as it would be wrong for England and Wales to be forced to Remain against their will now that they have voted to leave, it would be wrong for Scotland and Northern Ireland to be forced out of the EU in the face of votes to Remain.
The obvious way for these things to happen are for votes on Scottish independence and a united Ireland, both of which are things I’m in favour of. But I think it would be a mistake to take the leaps into them without first exploring a middle ground; what I call “the reverse Greenland”.
