Break up of UK inevitable for 2008?

[spartan]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2238275,00.html

Thoughts?

I am personally undecided on whether the break up of the UK would be good for the workers or bad?

[Goatse]

It would be bad. It would just mean erecting more walls between the working class.

[The Feral Underclass]

It will make absolutely no difference to the working class.

[bolshevik butcher]

I think that it is most unlikely that we will see a break up of the UK in the near future. Nationalism in Wales is not that strong, and the orange veto remains very firmly in place in the North of Ireland.

The strength of Scottish nationalism is often vastly over stated. While it is true that the SNP has gained in recent years out of the oppertunism and right footing of the Labour Party and by posing itself as a left/populist alternative this has not resulted in a huge rise in support for independence. In fact recent polls have shown that support for independence is lower than support for the SNP. The SNP is constatly back footing on calling a refferendum on independence because it knows it may well lose it.

Despite tat's cool ultraleftist snide actually the break off of Scotland from the union would affect the working class in Britain as a whole. It would fatally weaken a tradition of united struggle among the British working class and its ability to struggle as one force. It would allow Scottish and English workers to be played agianst each other easier and result in both being set against each other on national grounds.