Quote Originally Posted by Flem View Post
I provided a link to evidence of what proportion of people who voted for the SNP voted to leave the EU in the referendum. (Note - the EU referendum took place over 4 years ago.) Some people might think that pretty weak evidence to support your claim that "a lot of SNP voters are Brexiteers" - not least because 'my' evidence related to those people who voted Leave and were SNP voters 4 years ago whereas you were referring to the current situation. A lot of things can change in 4 years, such as the UK actually leaving the EU. But even leaving that claim aside, you made two other claims for which I haven't seen any supporting evidence. Namely, "a lot are not actually pro Independence" and "they certainly aren't pro independence and then join the EUers". Would you care to provide any evidence to support either of those two claims? (I think it's your use of the word 'certainly' that makes me think you must be aware of some pretty strong supporting evidence which, for some unknown reason, you're keeping to yourself.)
If you want peer reviewed studies I'm going to disappoint.

"a lot are not actually pro Independence"
There is a significant group of voters that left Labour and vote for SNP even though they are unionists. In 2010 Labour lost a huge number to the SNP and although it is only my opinion, I think some SNP voters do not support independence.
At the 2014 indy ref, 14% of SNP voters opted to stay in the Union.
https://www.open.edu/openlearn/peopl...itical-parties

so I think it is fair to say what I did. You can quibble over "a lot" but 14% at the indy ref 1 was a lot.

"they certainly aren't pro independence and then join the EUers"
It's really linked to the first point that a descent rump of SNP voters supported Brexit.
If 36% voted for Brexit and want to leave the EU (accepting that figure will have moved since) and they might include the 14% that voted against Independence, but that still leave around 20%.
That would be circa 220% of SNP voters that maybe want Independence and not EU membership. They may want EFTA for example.

It's a very complex situation and with every year there will be swings backwards and forward.

If there is an Indy Ref 2 at some point, it will be interesting to see if having voted for independence the Scottish folk opt not to join the EU.