{"id":100953,"date":"2017-03-14T14:07:50","date_gmt":"2017-03-14T14:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/?p=100953"},"modified":"2017-03-14T14:07:50","modified_gmt":"2017-03-14T14:07:50","slug":"brexit-the-perfect-pr-for-a-second-scottish-referendum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/brexit-the-perfect-pr-for-a-second-scottish-referendum\/","title":{"rendered":"Brexit: the perfect PR for a second Scottish referendum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Just three years ago, Scotland held its first independence referendum, securing a no vote with a massive 84.59% turnout. While the SNP was elected in the Scottish Parliament with a mandate to secure a second referendum, it was widely assumed that such a recent referendum would mean that another would be a very long way off \u2013 until Brexit.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The decision to leave the EU has given Nicola Sturgeon the perfect PR on which to base her claims to a second referendum. As Scotland voted to remain in the EU, the UK\u2019s decision to leave \u2013 and the Government\u2019s current lean towards a \u2018hard\u2019 Brexit \u2013 has meant a new\u00a0chance for Sturgeon to revamp her messaging.<\/p>\n<p>At the core of this is May\u2019s apparent refusal to move \u2018\u2019even an inch\u2019\u2019 on issues such as market access: the referendum has been positioned as a chance for Remain voters to decide whether they want to live in the UK and embark on a \u2018hard\u2019 Brexit, or in an independent Scotland which can decide its relationship with the EU.<\/p>\n<p>The timing around this announcement is one of its biggest gambles: as support for another referendum is at more or less 50\/50, Sturgeon is hoping that by the time it takes place \u2013 almost certainly not before the end of Brexit negotiations \u2013 a much stronger basis of popular support will have developed. The unlikelihood that Westminster will submit to Scotland\u2019s demands for a referendum by 2019 is a huge part of this. If it doesn\u2019t, then Sturgeon has ample opportunity to nurture the idea that it is restricting the will of the Scottish people. The question here is whether this message will resonate beyond the nationalist support base of the SNP to those who voted to remain a part of both the EU and the UK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just three years ago, Scotland held its first independence referendum, securing a no vote with a massive 84.59% turnout. While the SNP was elected in the Scottish Parliament with a mandate to secure a second &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":423,"featured_media":100954,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3725,7271],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100953"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/423"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100953"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100960,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100953\/revisions\/100960"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}