The Cardiff Declaration is a show of strength by local nationalists in an attempt to demonstrate their power to London and secure more concessions in various areas, political analyst Malek Dudakov told Vedomosti. According to him, current British legislation still reliably safeguards London’s ability to control the situation.

In addition, the Labour government will try to restrict the possibility of holding such referendums as much as possible. Despite this, supporters of independence for these regions will try to use the issue to blame London for all possible problems and strengthen their power and influence.

The chances of independence supporters are low primarily because, apart from Scotland, the local population is not genuinely ready to support the idea, Dudakov says.

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