An independent Scotland (and Wales ) could be in the same position as NZ.

 Labour in bother Wales and Scotland former Scottish Leader  Kexia Douglas  have been Congratulating thier Sister Party Jacinda Ardern  on their result in last weeks landslide in that independent country's General Election

Kezia Dugdale

@kezdugdale

· Oct 17

Super proud of my pal tonight

Welsh Labour

@WelshLabour

·

Oct 17

Congratulations

@JacindaArdern

and

@NZLabour

on a well-deserved victory!

Best wishes from the entire

@WelshLabour

family.s

It seems to bypaass them that they are congratulating a small country (Too Small) on providing a leader and government , that is the envy of the world

Indeed it prompted me to ask Ms  Douglas 

Glyn Morris

@glynbeddau

·

14h

If you hadn't chosen the path of a failed Union. Maybe you could have emulated her and led Labour to a landslide in an General Election in an independent Scotland next May.

The comparison with Scotland is stark even under the Union a strong able leader sems to be heading for a landslide at the next Scottish Elections almost mirroring the result in New Zealand

Here are the polling averages of the polls below together with the seat changes on uniform swings. Information on how the 2021 Scottish Parliament election polling average is calculated is available here.

Here are the polling averages of the polls below together with the seat changes on uniform swings. Information on how the 2021 Scottish Parliament election polling average is calculated is available here.

Summary

		Seats		Seat Changes
Party		Then	Now	Gains	Losses	Net
	SNP	63	71	+11	-3	+8
	Conservative	31	23	+1	-9	-8
	Labour	24	19	0	-5	-5
	Green	6	10	+4	0	+4
	Liberal Democrat	5	6	+2	-1	+1

Constituency

		Votes			Seats		Seat Changes
Party		Then	Now	Change	Then	Now	Gains	Losses	Net
	SNP	46.50%	54.00%	+7.50%	59	69	+10	0	+10
	Conservative	22.02%	20.50%	-1.52%	7	1	0	-6	-6
	Labour	22.56%	15.50%	-7.06%	3	0	0	-3	-3
	Liberal Democrat	7.82%	7.00%	-0.82%	4	3	0	-1	-1
	Green	0.58%	1.00%	+0.42%	0	0	0	0	0

Region

		Votes			Seats		Seat Changes
Party		Then	Now	Change	Then	Now	Gains	Losses	Net
	SNP	41.72%	44.50%	+2.78%	4	2	+1	-3	-2
	Conservative	22.93%	19.50%	-3.43%	24	22	+1	-3	-2
	Labour	19.07%	16.00%	-3.07%	21	19	0	-2	-2
	Green	6.58%	10.00%	+3.42%	6	10	+4	0	+4
	Liberal Democrat	5.22%	7.50%	+2.28%	1	3	+2	0	+2
	UKIP	2.03%	2.03%	0.00%	0	0	0	0	0
	Brexit Party	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0	0	0	0	0

Compare this prediction with the result in New Zealand

e • d Summary of the 17 October 2020 election for the House of Representatives^[201][202]
Preliminary results with 100.0% of ordinary and advanced votes counted, not including special votes

Party		Votes	Percent	Change (pp)	Seats
					Electorate	List	Total	Change
	Labour	1,171,544	49.15	+12.26	43	21	64	+18
	National	638,606	26.79	−17.66	26	9	35	−21
	ACT	190,139	7.98	+7.48	1	9	10	+9
	Green	180,347	7.57	+1.30	1	9	10	+2
	NZ First	63,534	2.67	−4.53	0	0	0	−9
	New Conservative	35,971	1.51	+1.27	0	0	0	0
	Opportunities	33,727	1.41	−1.03	0	0	0	0
	Māori	23,932	1.00	−0.18	1	0	1	+1
	Advance NZ	20,878	0.88	+0.88	0	0	0	0
	Legalise Cannabis	7,590	0.32	+0.01	0	0	0	0
	ONE	6,474	0.27	+0.27	0	0	0	0
	Vision NZ	2,780	0.12	+0.12	0	0	0	0
	Outdoors	2,596	0.11	+0.05	0	0	0	0
	TEA	1,871	0.08	+0.08	0	0	0	0
	Sustainable NZ	1,469	0.06	+0.06	0	0	0	0
	Social Credit	1,351	0.06	+0.03	0	0	0	0
	Heartland	987	0.04	+0.04	0	0	0	0
Total		2,383,796	100.00	—	72	48	120	—

If Scotland had voted YEsS in 2014 it could have been a Labour Leader  who led Scotland through the Covid Pandemic who was approaching a lamdslide.
Of course next May's election is going to be about Independence , but Nicola Sturgeons steerage through the pandemic has clearly influenced many that  this route is the future for Scotland.
Some will  claim that New Zealand's success is partly  due to it being an Island.
But Scotland in an Island and  has only one land boarder and an Independent Scotland would have much more control over how they applied restrictions.
For New Zealand and Scotland read Wales  , we to should look at the result in the Southern Hemisphere  as an example what we with the right leadership and powers can achieve.Instead we send letters  to the incompetent and increasingly corrupt and totalitarian Westminster Government asking them to discourage other UK residents from blackspots from visiting Wales , during what is obviously  a Second Wave.
I have no doubt before this decade is out Scotland will join New Zealand  asan independent Nation , whether another nation called Cymru joins them is up to us.