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2016-06-26 01:45 (ссылка)

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-06-25/scots-leaders-prepare-ground-for-post-brexit-independence-vote

The novelist and former Guardian columnist Jenny Colgan was an outspoken defender of the union in 2014. On Friday morning, she tweeted that she was crying with relief after listening to Nicola Sturgeon’s promise to defend the aspirations of Scots who had voted to remain.

She said: “My reasons for voting no last time, because I didn’t believe in separation and isolation, are what make me a yes voter now. I thought that it would be a hold-your-nose choice but actually I’m feeling quite excited that we have a way out of this horrible mess.”

There is certainly an understanding within the SNP of the need to make a new offer on independence now it not only improves on the gaps in the 2014 argument, most obviously currency and oil, but is tailored to a Scotland remaining within the EU while England and Wales leave.

A second general election in the autumn could afford the SNP the possibility of putting an even stronger commitment to a second independence referendum in another manifesto. There is also an acknowledgement, however, that the timing may be beyond the Scottish government’s control, particularly if they are required to dovetail the referendum process with Brexit negotiations.

Tommy Sheppard, one of the SNP’s most prominent Westminster MPs, had been expected to take a leading role in the party’s summer independence drive, a project Sturgeon announced before May’s Scottish parliament elections and aimed at building a consistent yes majority for the long-term.

In a thoughtful and provocative article that some considered an early application for the post of SNP deputy leader following the resignation of Stewart Hosie last month, Sheppard identified a group he described as “the I-curious”, people who were not ideologically opposed to independence, but had yet to be convinced on key questions such as currency and other economic concerns.

He believes the Brexit vote will have swelled their ranks: “It’s not the fact of Brexit but the political effect. We clearly do think that it will change the voting intentions of a significant number of those 2 million who voted no in 2014,” he said.

“It’s an insult to those people not to have the chance to reconsider now that the prospectus has changed. I think that most no voters made a considered judgment based on a number of factors, not least of which was remaining part of the EU.”

He could well have been describing the Harry Potter writer, JK Rowling, who made substantial donations to the pro-union Better Together campaign in 2014, and wrote compellingly of her hope that Scotland would remain part of the UK. She shocked followers on Friday when she corrected a correspondent on Twitter: “[Describing me as a] ‘staunch opponent’ implies I was pro-union no matter what, which was never the case. Many no voters will think again now.”

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