Post Poll - Britain decided to...

Cheers for the response. I think your analysis is probably sound. Yet my own gut feeling is that it's still unlikely to translate into a Yes win. At this current time, anyway. As you say, it's all conjecture, and I guess we'll just need to see how things develop.

One thing's for sure, though, the atmosphere around any second referendum, if it comes, is going to be absolutely poisonous, no matter what side people are on.

Sadly almost zero chance of Scottish independence IMO.
A referendum won't be granted by the shower of cunts in Westminster, you can talk all you like about mandates and people's will blah blah but the whole idea of decency and respect no longer exists in the political world daan saaf.
Even if it were to take place, everyone would (like the last time) be intimidated into voting no as they're already skint and will be told by every newspaper and a social media onslaught that they'll be poorer.
The fact that the Tories are now far more evil and incompetent than ever, have delivered the worst Brexit imaginable and so many policies abhorrent to most Scots yet polls are still with "No" ahead tells you everything.
It's sadly a country with a collective fucked ego that's scared shitless and with huge numbers of people (The moron Rangers fan type) that would not vote for independence, no matter what, even if it were "Vote Yes to be independent and not have a nuclear bomb dropped on you or vote no to be annihilated @.

So that nonsense trade war trump started with the eu over step has been ended, with tariffs lifted. Except for the U.K, tariffs still stand seeing as we need to strike our own deal, some day, eventually

I know Twitter isn't real life, but it's fairly poisonous at the moment. If I hadn't already switched sides due to events, I think Unionist twitter would push me that way too. It's 70% bots/socks, 10% Tories and 20% Rangers fans. All with a complete personal hatred of Nicola Sturgeon, and that's about it really.

On Scottish social media, if you like Brexit, Trump, think CV19 is a hoax/over-egged, vaccines will kill you, deny climate change, you are also guaranteed to be against Independence, with a degree of hate that should have you put on a government watch list. I'm fairly sure most of them are UK Army cyberagents just stirring. Normal people can't devote their whole lives to so much hate.

Just ask Putin nicely.

Well ... at least we got rid of that godawful EU salt and pepper:

Not aware of any pepper being produced in the EU, and the salt mines in Poland and the Eastern Bloc were shut down decades ago soooo. Weird, and particularly stupid, flex?

I can't even think the word "British" without it sounding like "BRII-ISHHH!!" any more.

I avoid the word in general.

How's your inadvertently acquired Dudley accent doing?

Interesting. The Union Jack always seemed ok to me, it was the English flag that was the one that seemed racist.
Particularly around the time of the london olympics, you saw a huge amount of fashion in Tokyo that incorporated Union Jacks. I still see it from time to time, and I think it has a pretty positive image.

The Harry & Meghan thing tarnished it a bit, but now Japan has done the same thing so whatever. No one here understood Brexit, they all thought that was nuts.

The worrying thing for me here is that most of the news that they pick up from the UK is sourced from the Daily Mail, the Express or the Sun. Their daytime TV shows and also Yahoo News (which is big here) source a lot of stories from those, and I have to keep explaining to people that it's probably bullshit.

We all got room for a little pre-coffee morning rant about our glorious, totally not lying bastard, media? Widely reported last night and everywhere this morning, and shamefully even in places such as the Guardian, that Macron has backed down over the fishing licenses row with the UK, which is being spun as 'tenacious UK government sees off smelly Frenchies!'.

When in reality the UK entirely folded to French demands, which related to the issuing of some fifty individual permits, yesterday afternoon when the State of Jersey issued the outstanding ones and went to great lengths to demonstrate their amenability to processing more. Those would also be the very same outstanding licenses that Liz Truss literally lied about on BBC News yesterday morning, claiming that ALL licenses had been issued in accordance with the previously agreed deal. Which was patently not the case and was the main thrust of the dispute.

Nah? Cool. As we were then.

That guy has appeared before, he's the one who said he was convinced because of the big red bus. As usual with these twats, what is best for him is the only criteria.

There is not a violin small enough.