Scottish Leader Warns of Backlash in Liberal Pro-EU Scotland From British EU Referendum
Scotland's top politician is warning that a future United Kingdom referendum on leaving the European Union could spark a new drive for independence in pro-EU Scotland.
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon on Tuesday called for a "double-majority" system in the 2017 referendum that would require the support of England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland before the United Kingdom could leave the EU.
Sturgeon warned in a speech in Brussels that British Prime Minister David Cameron's "in-out" referendum to be decided by a simple majority of Britons "would provoke a strong backlash."
She says "the groundswell of anger among many ordinary people in Scotland in these circumstances could produce a clamor for another independence referendum that may well be unstoppable."
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2015/06/02/world/europe/ap-eu-europe-britain.html
UKIP will be getting its referendum on the UK leaving the EU. If UKIP and the right win the referendum and the UK leaves the EU, liberal Scotland which is pro-EU may try again for independence.
Interesting to see the Tory party cater to UKIP on the referendum and the way that the left has fought back, fairly ineffectively so far. Events in Scotland could continue to be significant.