Thread by @RogueCoder250

How different it is from 2014.

Back then, most of England thought that we had gone absolutely mad. I know, I lived in England back then.

Now most of England is looking on in envy, trying to decide whether to encourage us to leave or beg us to stay.

Interesting times.

For most of us in the Yes movement, 2014 was a massively positive experience and a watershed in politics - despite the obvious disappointment at the outcome.

For most people in England at the time, it was a remote possibility in a remote land.

But now it's all too real.

Whilst we endure the immediate political scuffles between the SNP, Greens and Alba, I'm taking a longer view on all of this.

It was the Tories that did this. All of it. Not the "Scottish nats". The Tories started an irrevocable process 50 years ago that led us all to this moment

The Tories are fond of saying that "The SNP want to break up the UK!"

But it was them - long before the SNP even became politically relevant. The Tories through their arrogance, ignorance and utter indifference to the lives of ordinary people set us ALL on this path.

My evidence?

The SNP don't stand in Wales, Northern Ireland, Cornwall or Northern England.

But today they all have serious, flourishing independence movements.

Scotland may be first. She won't be the last.