Would we come back on Saturday though if we got ‘ammered?
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Not sure what you're basing this on, support for Welsh Independence has surged in the last two years
https://www.npr.org/2021/05/03/99320...=1642102287294
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...-b1812241.html
I don't think these current restrictions would turn that on its head
Scrapped in two weeks https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-59984873
all good to go for the rugby six nations
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/sport/...eford-22747787
Does this mean that there will be crowsds for the forest game?
There's a Cardiff uni blog that regularly posted the full results with demographic breakdown etc, I don't know if they still do it
I imagine people said similar in Scotland for a while and probably the same about a referendum on leaving the EU. Would turnout be low? To get to a referendum there'd have to be a strong enough level of support for it so there'd be motivation on both sides. You can point to the devolution referendums but they were small fry, especially compared to breaking away from the UK state entirely. I imagine turnout would be quite high as we saw in Scotland & with Brexit.
Does polling mean independence is around the corner? No, that was a sharp rise which I imagine is fairly soft. However there has been consistent support for greater powers for some time, it's quite surprising how quickly anti-devolution sentiment melted away.
Edit: Here's that blog: https://blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/electionsinwales/
And there's the rub. What percentage of the Welsh population would genuinely want to break away from the UK? I believe it would be very small. Plaid Cymru's share of the vote in Wales is consistently small - just 10% in the last general election. I think that paints a truer picture than any polls. I'm sure a reasonable percentage of people would like Wales to have a greater level of autonomy, but outright independence? I don't believe there is a widespread appetite for that despite the shambles at Westminster.
I’m sure it will continue to rise if we have many more English Tory governments- who are now the UKIP party by another name. They are dragging us into a banana republic.