Towards Scotland's independence?

The SNP benefited in 2014 from exceptional factors, be they political, legal, economic or social, in order to hold the referendum on independence that it had long promised. Brexit might have provided another set of advantageous circumstances as the Scots could decide to leave the United Kingdom in order to remain in the EU had these assets not turned into adverse factors. This article, based on the analysis of parliamentary sources over thirty years, deals with the way the independence issue has shifted, both until 2014 and since 2016. It eventually argues that the SNP might be more successful by following a different, indirect, path, towards its ultimate goal, ie by proving that Scotland's place in the UK is no longer legitimate.