Call for referendum re-vote?
I had a neighbour who sickened herself over the referendum, she was that dedicated to it. She had big YES signs across every window in her house, Scottish flags flew in her garden and she travelled to different parts of the county to campaign for votes in a completely non-militant fashion. For the past year or so, since the referendum begun, she dedicated her life to trying to influence people to make a change for Scotland. Now, it's not the same as gathering men to go against King Edward, Edward and Edward's armies, but it's definitely giving it a good go. In fact, if some of the campaigners in Glasgow's George Square had painted their faces and worn tartan kilts with broadswords strapped to their hips, you would've known no different.
If you'd witnessed the extreme devotion and patriotism coming from the Scottish people, you would never once guessed that the No vote coming tops in the referendum was even a possibility. You would have imagined that the Scottish would've disentangled themselves from the clasp of the English from which they'd been withheld for so long.
In the Capture of Berwick, we were bent double at the waists and spanked by the English when they took siege over the town and violated the women.
In the Raid of Scone, Siege of Stirling Castle, Battle of Roslin, Battle of Dunbar, Falkirk and many, many more, the Scottish men were slaughtered. King John was manipulated and ridiculed by Edward as he was a 'weak King'. Scotland were almost forced to battle against their strongest allies, to pay their taxes to fund this battle, and when we found it within us to revolt – we were pushed back and stomped upon.
And hereby, you'd guess that with years of change and settling with the English customs, you'd think that once the opportunity to grasp what was once dancing between our patriotic fingertips came along, we'd grab it and keep a firm, firm hold.
Waking up this Friday morning to discover that we'd lost a battle that it didn't take thousands of deaths and revolts to win was a sure kick in the face for many, but for the majority? It was a celebratory day. I'd like to here share with you, a few of the posts that were upon my Facebook (full of scots) on the morning of waking, -and- some fishy things that make the No majority vote win seem not quite right.
“Scotland the brave... R.I.P.”
“Feel so proud to be able to say I was part of the 45% who believed in Scotland”
“Still absolutley gutted scotland will be independant one day, the dream will never die”
“SCOTLAND WILL RISE AGAIN!!!”
“Ed Miliband has turned down giving more powers to Scotland. Hope you're proud of what yous have done voting no. Knew this was gonna happen !!”
Angry, right? But what caught my eye was the other posts that looked more into the mysterious 'No' vote. Those who purely believed that Scotland would find their independence.
In a polling station, the fire alarm went off twice to evacuate people from the building – of which a few stayed inside to 'save votes'.
There was a car crash on the M9 that delayed many boxes of votes.
Many polling stations did not use wax-based pencils that would have prevented the ability to rub out votes.
There are videos of people 'sorting' the votes, though if you look closer they seem rather suspicious.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUR-HgAtwtg
At the same time, it doesn't seem likely that thousands of votes would have been miscounted because of 'rigging', or favouritism over one party. However, it does seem highly unlikely that Edinburgh, Scotland's capital was a majority no and that Stirling, where one of the historical wars took place, lead close behind.
Many on Facebook and other social media's have been sharing a 'petition' that you sign up to for a re-vote however, it seems very highly unlikely that this is a possibility when the English parliament have already won. Why would they do it all again?
Tell me what you think below! How do you feel about the loss of independence, and if it were possible, would you call for a re-vote?
