I wonder if the SNP, with 56 MPs out of the 59 elected from Scotland, might at some stage be tempted to declare a Unilateral Declaration of Independence.
This letter published, before the General Election, in the Western Daily Press on the 18th March seems even more relevant now.
Will Scots follow the Irish model?
In the general election of 1918 Sinn Fein won 70 per cent of the Westminster parliamentary seats in the Island of Ireland; four years later the Irish Free State came into being. Nearly one hundred years on, approaching May’s general election, opinion polls suggest that the SNP may win 90 per cent of the Westminster parliamentary seats in Scotland.
If the polls are proved correct will there still be a Union between England and Scotland in four years’ time? As history may well repeat itself, with Scotland following Ireland out of the Union, I would certainly not bet against Scotland being an independent nation by 2020.
S.W.
English Democrats, Somerset
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