Scotland will not secede from Great Britain. Edinburgh and London will have to live together under the same roof. In fact, the "No" voters won the independence referendum with 55% and the "Yes" vote is consequently 45%: ten percentage points behind them, 2.001.926 votes against 1.617.989. Just under XNUMX voters - the difference between the two sides - have decided that England will remain a united nation.
The victory of the "No" was therefore much wider than expected by most of the polls on the eve, which also saw the anti-independence activists in the lead. The figure for Edinburgh is particularly significant: in the city that would become the capital of the new state, the independence supporters stopped at 39% while the unionists are at 61%.
The result of the referendum has already boosted the pound, which was already showing signs of recovery yesterday, and is immediately invigorating the markets and will reassure the banks and big Scottish finance who were contemplating a flight to London in the event of a victory for the yeses to secession. The rejection of the divorce also reassures Great Britain and Europe who feared a domino effect in the wake of the Scottish referendum.
If London and Europe breathe a sigh of relief, certainly Madrid is also celebrating as it sees the independence dreams of Catalonia fade away.
