Anger in Ireland and Scotland want to separate .. Is the UK contract broken after the Brexit?

Al Jazeera Net - London

Britain's readiness to exit from the European Union renewed the historical feuds between London and the countries under the British crown, especially Scotland, which had returned to demand its right to organize a new referendum to secede from the United Kingdom.

Despite the opposition of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who does not want the kingdom's contract to be loose during his reign, the scene in Scotland is witnessing a state of mobilization to pressure the British government to accept a new referendum after the first referendum that was organized in 2014, and he favored the stance and the lack of separation.

In the last British elections, the Scottish National Party won 48 of the 59 seats allocated to the country in Parliament, and it won about 48% of the votes of voters in Scotland.

After this victory, party leader Boris Johnson called Nicolas Stergen demanding that her country be given the right to organize a new referendum to secede from the United Kingdom, but Johnson rejected this request, stressing in an official letter to the Scottish government that he would "not accept any request to organize a new referendum on secession."

British media reports quoted the Conservative leaders as saying, "Sturgeon will have to wait long without getting what she wants," but she seemed confident of the separation, which she considered "a matter of time, and that the time has come to end this unity that lasted for more than three centuries."

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Stergen is campaigning an unprecedented mobilization campaign in Scotland to mobilize public opinion to circumvent the idea of ​​secession, taking advantage of the Scottish nationalist trend, revived by Britain's secession from the European Union.

The Scottish National Party is preparing for a major march expected to involve tens of thousands of people demanding secession, at a time when the results of the latest opinion polls in Scotland showed that supporters of the idea of ​​secession exceeded the 50% barrier since the beginning of the British exit path from the European Union.

For its part, the British government is working to seduce public opinion in Scotland. Johnson promised that he would increase the funds allocated to the health, education and security sectors there, and launched a project to improve the health system there, and he is playing this paper to show Stirgen that Scotland will not be able alone to provide these budgets .

Johnson is unlikely to accept new negotiations with Stergen over the secession referendum, especially in the early years of the UK’s secession from the European Union.

However, results from a poll conducted by the "Yukov" site show that 63% of Johnson's electoral base said it would "be happy" in the event that Scotland secedes from the United Kingdom, while another poll showed that this percentage reaches 76%.

The group’s motives are the same as those that prompted them to vote to leave the European Union. They see in Britain a “gold mine” that everyone wants to exploit, and they consider that the time has come for Britain’s wealth to return to its people; just as the European Union’s “burden” has been eliminated, a “burden” must be removed. Scotland".

Warnings
Scotland's Labor party member and candidate in the last elections, Faten Hamid, believes that organizing a new referendum on the same topic is "an anti-democratic procedure, otherwise this matter will open the door to the chaos of referendums. In democratic norms, the referendum is one time and not repeated."

And she considers that the pro-secession campaign "raises a lot of fallacies, among which is that Britain exploits Scotland's oil, and this is not true. There is an agreement signed in 1969 on the oil profits tax that goes to the treasury of Scotland, and that Scotland's debts exceed Britain's debts and if it separates from the United Kingdom, it will not The European Union accepts its membership. "

Faten goes on to warn that "leaving the UK means many companies leave the country and high unemployment, and we have two options: the first is pressure to increase the resources allocated to the country and stay with the kingdom, or secession and enter into an unprecedented economic crisis."

And she added that Stergen "succeeded in reviving the nationalism of the Scots, to the extent that some members of the Labor Party and even the Conservatives have come to support the idea of ​​secession."

And if the union agreement between the United Kingdom and Scotland, which was concluded three centuries ago, is in a state of laxity these days, the same applies to the "Great Friday" agreement concluded in 1998 that ended the bloody conflict between Britain and the Republic of Ireland, which killed 3,500 people.

The wave of violence began to wave again when an IRA spokesman warned that "any solid borders that might separate the two Irish - such as the placement of fences or electronic gates - would be a legitimate target" for this paramilitary organization, in response to reports saying the development of electronic portals between The Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom.

The British government announced that it would establish maritime borders, not land, which irked the Irish supporters of the United Kingdom with the United Kingdom who were proactive to provoke the conflict in its beginnings, and there are fears that this time they will also be initiators of any provocation if they see that the Republicans are trying to use the "Brexit" to strengthen Their condition.