I was asking a friend the other day about how - given the intertwined nature of unions across Britain, independence would function with relation to their continued operation. Would unions split, or remain single entities? Or perhaps the situation would be like that on this island with many forms.
But their read was that while the Scottish Government is regarded as more progressive with regard to unions, though obviously far from optimal, there was an issue due to links with more unionist inclined leftish groups or parties there was the possibility of foot-dragging or slowing or blocking independence or being outright hostile to the SNP. In a way that's predictable. The SNP is now the dominant pro-independence force but it's far from a clearly left wing one (though it has some left strands). Easy to see how that might function in the immediate. That said there's also those around the most unionist-inclined parts of the BLP who would have enormous antipathy to the SNP.
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