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Also re that reference to Scottish independence in thread #1599 and it being "taken off the table" by a RW Tory government - UDI anyone???? Imagine the great possibility of a SNP-Greens democratically elected Scottish majority government with a natural mandate to push for self-determination but still impudently dismissed by a shitheid RW British govt. Grounds for a Unilateral Declaration for Independence? IMO absolutely!! I believe that roughly 50% of previous UDIs have been successful and some of them have resulted in hostility, others a peaceful transfer of powers. The most famous hostile UDI was the American one that resulted in the Yankee Continental Army defeating the British and ending colonial rule once and for all. The rest is history. Ireland was obviously another infamous, hostile UDI with many lives lost on both sides. A more recent successful UDI that I can recall is Slovakia's push for independence in 1993 and the country is located north of the Balkans as well as being a smaller nation than Scotland and borders Austria, Poland, Czechoslovakia and Ukraine. UDI is definitely an option that could be chosen if Scotland is given no other choice due to the intransigence of an antagonistic British govt.