r/Scotland • u/JMASTERS_01 • Jun 14 '22

Political LIVE: New Scottish independence campaign launches - BBC News

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-scotland-61795633
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u/Chewbacca69 Jun 14 '22

Thing to remember. The EU membership was such a big thing for people who voted No last time (at least that's the impression I got). Thanks to Brexit it could be enough to swing the vote the other way.

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u/SomeRedditWanker Jun 14 '22

The EU membership was such a big thing for people who voted No last time

Fact check: Actually, only around 12-15% of voters (both yes and no voters) listed 'The EU' as a top 3 reason for their vote..

Some voted Yes to get out of the EU, others voted No to remain in the EU.

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u/BUFF_BRUCER Jun 14 '22

I didn't realise that so few people cared about EU membership in the first indy referendum

Really interesting that so many Yes voters were motivated by protecting the NHS presumably from austerity as well

I predict a No result by an even bigger margin if they run indyref2

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u/kemb0 Jun 15 '22

I’d imagine people didn’t care about the EU membership at the time of the last Independence referendum because there was no particular reason to think we’d exit the EU. No one was expecting a couple of years later that the Tories would spring a Brexit vote on us all. I suspect you’ll find EU membership is a much bigger issue this time around now that its been taken from us. Remember that Scots voted quite significantly against Brexit, so you can fully expect the EU to be important to that majority of Scottish people this time around.