Almost six in 10 Scots would vote for independence if asked again, a Sunday newspaper’s poll has found.
The Dundee-based Sunday Post commissioned its survey just hours after the EU referendum result was confirmed on Friday morning.
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon says a second referendum on Scottish independence is “highly likely” following the vote for Brexit.
Despite almost 52pc of voters backing leaving the EU overall, 55pc of those in Scotland voted to stay.
According to Sunday’s edition of the DC Thomson-owned Post, pictured above, 59pc of Scots would now back independence in light of the referendum’s result.
The online survey, carried out by research firm ScotPulse, took place on Friday and was sent to a representative sample of 1600 adults across Scotland.
Elsewhere, the editor of a regional daily which unsuccessfully urged readers to vote Remain says there is “no arguing” with the result.
The Birmingham Mail campaigned for a Remain vote, but the city’s voters narrowly backed Leave.
In an editorial, Mail editor Marc Reeves wrote: “Let’s hope the Brexit campaigners were right. Let’s hope Britain is stronger outside of the EU. Let’s hope the economy can flourish free from the shackles of European bureaucracy.
“This paper argued over the past week that Birmingham would be better off if the UK remained part of the European Union. But the majority didn’t agree – although it was always going to be close.
“The democratic process has delivered the result the majority wanted and the West Midlands and the UK are on a path to leave the EU. There is no arguing with that result.
“Now, we all have a role in making this path as safe as possible, and with the markets in meltdown this morning, we need our politicians to show the kind of calm leadership that has been so lacking for the past three months of this divisive campaign.”
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The strategy seems to be to keep asking for independence votes until the one trick pony that is the SNP gets its own way. Drop some litter on the floor, demand a vote, don’t like the new PM, demand a vote – they say no, wait two years and ask again.
Also seems strange to constantly exclaim how you can stand on your own two feet, but only on the basis you have the backing of 27 other countries. Scotland either wants independence or it doesn’t, it can either stand alone or it can’t.
It’s like saying I’m sick of living at my mum’s house and then going to live with my aunty.
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Columns of the Sunday Post have traditionally reflected an inward looking, quaint Scotland, but there don’t seem to be as many Royal Balmoral articles now that Aberdeenshire is mainly Out.
It will be interesting to see what line DC Thomson takes once Scotland comes under the thumb of Germany in the New Europe.
Perhaps a few articles on what the Gay Gordons might wear under their kilts when they go out to man the ramparts in Lithuania against Putin’s Asiatic hordes might not go amiss in the Sunday Post.
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The SNP seems to be comprised of hysterical idiots. Their projected ‘independence’ was originally based on North Sea oil revenues, now collapsed. They also wanted to keep the pound but were told it would not be possible. Now their idea of ‘independence’ seems to be about kneeling before a bunch of Brussels overlords while using their tanking, basket-case euro currency. Oh, and Brussels has already said it would not countenance independence for a country within the UK, given its problems with other European independence movements. Which part of this does the SNP not understand ?
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One-trick pony, Jeff Jones, North West? You don’t take much of an interest in, or seem to have any knowledge of, Scottish politics do you?
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Yes, the polls are so often right. I mean, a snap poll of 1,600 people in a country of 5.3 million just one day after the EU referendum. What could possibly be inaccurate about that?
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Sad to see the reactionary views from no doubt southern journos about the poll. Brexit is an earth-shattering and significant change in the UK and Scotland’s position within it and the SNP is more than within its rights to demand another referendum on the back of it.
All the hysteria and ‘not understanding’ is coming from people who can’t or won’t accept that. As it is, a second referendum is well nigh inevitable now and I recommend they get used to it.
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Humac, I’m sure they have a wide and diverse set of well thought out policies.
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I see you’ve been doing some research Jeff Jones. Well done.
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Have another referendum? No. If it went the way of Remain then the Leave Camp wld demand a 3rd referendum. And so it wld go on – and on – and on – and on. It seems we are living in an age where if you agree to take part in a poll but the vote goes against you then you start waving verbal fists etc and act like a child who has been told he/she has had enough sweets for the day and then starts bawling to the point the parent gives in.
Having reported on the EU for 17 years – and lived and worked in Brussels – I thought the Remain campaign was far too negative and the other key leaders of the EU such as France and Germany were making threats because they fear there will;l be a groundswell of voices in their countries demanding a vote. “I am not going to play ball with you yah boo because I don’t like the colour of the ball you have chosen.” Pathetic. I will admit that after voted for Britain to be in the Eu my experiences over for nearly 20 years made me despair about the individuality of member states being taken away from them.
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