IndyScotland2025

'IndyScotland2025' is a scenario in which Scotland becomes an independent country through a referendum in 2025, following the UK Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, openly supporting Scottish independence in the 2024 UK General election campaign.

The scenario follows the independence process, those involved, elections preceding and succeeding the vote and everything else in between.

These are all based on real-life, I'm just looking into the future to see what may happen, and what I think would happen as a result of the various things.

Background
Scotland had an independence referendum in 2014, following the SNP's rise to power in Scotland in 2010 - they took all Scottish seats in the UK Parliament except one. David Cameron was pressured to give Scotland what they wanted, and it resulted in a 'No' outcome, much to the pleasure of the Conservatives. The Conservatives, Labour and Lib Dems are all unionist parties, with only the SNP and the Greens supporting secession. Boris Johnson and Theresa May refused, multiple times, to sanction a Section 30 order for a Scottish independence referendum.

The Scottish National Party rose to power in the Scottish Parliament in the 2007 election, and have stayed in power there ever since. This is due to them being the only big party that supports independence. Their top priority is independence, so it is clear that the people of Scotland want another referendum as they keep voting them back in.

Following the COVID-19 Pandemic, people in Scotland have been harbouring unfavourable views of Boris Johnson, most likely because of Brexit and the EU trade deal that significantly harmed Scottish fisheries and businesses. Every single area of Scotland voted to stay in the EU, but the country was still made to leave, which also fuelled anger towards the UK. Nicola Sturgeon, SNP leader, has been capitalising on these events, creating narratives to persuade the Scottish people that they don't have a say in the UK and that the UK is harmful to Scotland. These seem to have worked as Scotland has been divided on the constitutional question for decades.