We'll see if these polls actually predict a swing to Labour. I very much doubt it.
>They don't have to. Scots could all be avowed marxists. The hands of the government would be forced.
Like Venezuela? Or Cuba? People are willing to accept a lot of suffering for their ideology. Also you stated that the SNP would get in, mess things up for a term, then lose an election to a more right-wing party because the Scots saw an error in their ways. I doubt this.
>Voters aren't particularly smart people.
Agreed.
>Seek implies I'm a Scot. I want Scotland gone, but I'm no Scottish Nationalist.
News to me.
>That's a breakthrough, even if it's mostly because Labour fell so far.
That's entirely what it is. The left and nationalists have gone over to the SNP, anyone else went Tory.
>Labour doing well to position itself as a Scottish protector [making them the party for the SNP to beat, pulling the SNP leftwards.]
You seem to believe that the SNP is primarily nationalist, and every other policy is based around that goal. It seems to me that it's more the SNP is left-wing, and wants to be able to pursue more left-wing policies than allowed by rUK.
>For what it's worth, I'm in favour of Brexit.
Good.
>Nonetheless it's still quite silly to say that - say - Sweden - isn't independent.
They're not wholly independent, they have laws made for them in Brussels, and they're currently signed up to a union that wants to continue to take powers and form a federal country.
>There's a reason we called a referendum of our own accord while Scotland had to get permission from Westminster.
Yes, Westminster has a greater degree of control over Scotland than Brussels does over the UK. It still does not alleviate the hypocrisy of "nationalists" who want to be free from foreign rule from one country, in favour of rule from a far more different country.
>Otherwise, they should accept that they're British.
Blame the cultural Marxists and the Yanks.