The SNP should use the next few years to collect as much data as they possibly can so that when they are granted another referendum 5 years from now (this would be the best guess estimate) they can be almost certain of winning. In all likelihood, even a campaign run with the slogan “well, it cannae get any worse so why no just go fir it” would be successful. For your average Scottish person, the Boris Johnson tenure will be pretty hard hitting. As a nation, we aren’t littered with genius IQ’s or even a moderate grasp on how politics work, but the one thing everybody in the working class has been able to analyze is that they are going to be worse off for a while now.
What the country needs to do is compete negate the need for people to vote based on religion and the football team they support. Just this week, sir Rod Stewart has been told he’s unwelcome at Celtic park because he congratulated Boris Johnson in a tweet. And you’d be hard pressed to find many life long die hard rangers fans who voted to leave in the previous referendum. The bitterness between the two forms such a divide that it can absolutely impact a vote on whether or not to separate from the union.
So much of Scotland leans to the left at the moment but I’m confident that if you ask 100 people what the left represents, a large Portion couldn’t explain it to you. So many SNP supporters spend their time focusing on why the Tories are so bad for the country, but I don’t think it’s necessary anymore, people get it. The danger over the next 5 years is that Scotland gets Left behind, deemed of no importance by the Tory government, and the SNP won’t get their referendum if all they do is complain. They need to be quiet for now, work diligently in the background and analyze it to the extent that at least 75% of the country can see there are no benefits whatsoever to renaming as part of the uk.