Anarchy in the UK: English & Scottish want a divorce

Anarchy for the UK, It's coming sometime and maybe
Anarchy in the UK, The Sex Pistols, 1977.

And that sometime may be soon. And it's not just the Scottish who are thinking of bailing out of the United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland. It's the English too, according to an exclusive Daily Telegraph poll.

The United Kingdom should be broken up and Scotland and England set free as independent nations, according to a huge number of voters on both sides of the border.

A clear majority of people in both England and Scotland are in favor of full independence for Scotland, an ICM opinion poll for The Sunday Telegraph has found. Independence is backed by 52 per cent of Scots while an astonishing 59 per cent of English voters want Scotland to go it alone.

There is also further evidence of rising English nationalism with support for the establishment of an English parliament hitting an historic high of 68 per cent amongst English voters. Almost half – 48 per cent – also want complete independence for England, divorcing itself from Wales and Northern Ireland as well. Scottish voters also back an English breakaway with 58 per cent supporting an English parliament with similar powers to the Scottish one.

The poll comes only months before the 300th anniversary of the Act of Union between England and Scotland and will worry all three main political parties. None of them favors Scottish independence, but all have begun internal debates on the future of the constitution.

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