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Re:Catalan parliament declares independence from Spain by tolien on Friday October 27, 2017 @10:47AM (#15568865)
There’s always the risk that you don’t get what you want, like the UK’s referendum on membership of the EU.
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Re:Catalan parliament declares independence from Spain by confounded on Friday October 27, 2017 @11:55AM (#15569605)
Who didn’t get what they wanted?
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Re:Catalan parliament declares independence from Spain by tolien on Friday October 27, 2017 @01:01PM (#15570188)
David Cameron? It's perhaps fair to say he called the referendum expecting to win, continue his political career and quell the infighting within the Tory party and achieved none of those.

While Madrid's handling of the more recent Catalan independence campaign has been pretty inept the Brexit vote sets a pretty strong counterexample to "just call a referendum, you'll win, it'll be over for 20 years". Scottish independence is a good example too, that's hardly gone quiet...

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Re:Catalan parliament declares independence from Spain by kingofpandora on Friday October 27, 2017 @12:22PM (#15569842)
> Who didn’t get what they wanted?

Scotland.

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Re:Catalan parliament declares independence from Spain by narag on Friday October 27, 2017 @10:44PM (#15573720)
How's that? There was a referendum to find out what Scotland wanted. It was hold in Scotland IIRC. Didn't Scots vote? Wasn't the result honored?
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