• Scotland Divorce with Europe triggers independence

The management of the pandemic, and especially that of Brexit, have led to the gradual

"disintegration of British sentiment

.

"

This is how forceful

The Times

newspaper was

after commissioning a survey in the four territories that make up the United Kingdom.

At the moment, Scotland already threatens its own 'Catalan' referendum if it is not allowed to hold one, while more than half of Northern Ireland wants a consultation in less than five years to solve the border problem and, ultimately instance, opt for reunification.

The crisis, in addition, must be managed by Boris Johnson, whom the independence groups see as a vein to garner votes for their cause.

On the horizon, the Scottish elections in May, in which not only is the SNP expected to be even more strengthened, but Nicola Sturgeon has already ensured that, if she establishes herself as chief minister, she will understand it as a gesture of confidence from the Scots to do whatever is necessary to

ensure consultation

.

"I want to hold a legal referendum, so I am going to seek the necessary authority from the Scottish people, and if they grant it to me in May, that is what I intend to achieve. To give people the opportunity to decide in a legal consultation", she has assured.

"That's what democracy is about, not what Boris Johnson or I want."

The novelty, in this case, is that they have already submitted a document with the "plan B" in case they do not succeed.

Faced with Johnson's outright rejection of this possibility, they claim to be willing to take the situation to its last consequences in order to force the Government to take to court the outcome of this hypothetical consultation.

Even so, as long as there are still avenues of dialogue, Sturgeon's preferred option is to receive state support so as not to lose recognition from the international community.

Right now, and according to the poll published by

The Times

newspaper

,

the 'yes' to the break with the United Kingdom wins by a bare 49% to 44%

, but the distance is greater when the question is about whether to vote about the topic.

That's when the 'yes' wins by 50% to 43%.

In this sense, the way in which the pandemic has been managed has a lot to do with it, as the survey also points out that, while 61% of Scots think that Sturgeon has done a good job, only 22% believe so Same about the prime minister, who leads the country hardest hit by the virus in Europe.

In fact, nearly twice as many people there think the crisis would have been better handled if they had been an independent nation.

What is also worrying in London about the issue, since the independence challenge from Edinburgh has been important for the last two decades, is the

'snowball' effect

that it can generate in the rest of the territories.

That is to say, that Sturgeon's actions to guarantee the consultation give wings to Wales, where there are already 23% of Welsh who want independence, and to Northern Ireland to propose the rupture of the country.

In the case of the Irish, the issue of reunification has been back on the table mainly after a Brexit that has dissolved the glue that the European Union was supposed to be.

There, however, the possibility of the break still loses by 42% to 47%, but 51% of its citizens want to vote on it during the next five years.

The long-term outlook is also not hopeful for the British in terms of the unity of the country.

In all four territories they consider Scotland likely to be independent over the next decade, while there is a total division of opinion within Northern Ireland itself about its reunification with the Republic of Ireland.

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