article_snippet.sent: Fascinatingly, one of the most-searched things on Google immediately after the end of the broadcast was whether people who don’t live in Scotland can vote for the SNP on May 7.
article_snippet.sent: Although poles apart politically – and
article_snippet.sent: our country was – and still is – deeply divided and bruised by the vote.
article_snippet.sent: If that happens, Britain would face a political crisis as the English (who number 53million) would feel justified in rebelling against a government that depended for the English (who number 53million) existence on the votes of a neighbouring country of just five million.
article_snippet.sent: Such a situation would, inevitably, become unworkable and collapse, with incalculable consequences for our political system.
article_snippet.sent: Already, Scots are speculating that there would soon be a second referendum on independence.