“I don’t think people in this country think referendums are the best way to maintain harmony,” Johnson said on television Sky News. The Labour leader of the opposition, Jeremy Corbin, has said that if he comes to power he will not prevent the referendum, but that it will not be one of his priorities.

For Sturgenon, this attitude of Johnson is untenable and believes that if the Scottish institutions clearly express their desire for a referendum, no member of the British Parliament would dare to show a contrary position.

SNP wants to take advantage of the Brexit wave

In 2014, a referendum was held in Scotland in which 55% of voters voted against independence. On the other hand, in the 2016 Brexit referendum, it won the favourable position of maintaining Scotland in the European Union, a wave that the SNP and the independentists want to take advantage of to call for a new referendum.

Johnson's 'no' has caused great surprise and dazzled the independentists. Sturgeon has been convinced that they will go ahead and we will have to see what happens after the general elections in December.

As usual, the Scottish referendums have always drawn attention, but on this occasion, even more so, because the Catalan question is also there and it is essential for European citizens to compare what is happening in each other. It is unimaginable for Europeans to see the streets of Edinburgh lit up, or how the police beat the supporters of Scottish independence, as is happening in Barcelona.