| Comment | I said defer, not refer - your link contained data from Curtice's report here https://www.natcen.ac.uk/media/1672027/Do-Scotland-and-England-and-Wales-Have-Different-Views-About-Immigration.pdf
By diametrically opposed, I mean that the leading party has an explicitly strong pro-immigration stance (as opposed to e.g. Labour which is pro-immigration but some way down their policy agenda) and that this is politically tenable to the electorate - and in fact the Scottish Conservatives have been broadly pro-immigration in a notable division from the UK party. Could the Westminster Conservatives take a similar line and expect to survive at the polls?
There aren't notably less migrants here - [around 7% of net migration is to Scotland, with 8.4% of the population](https://theferret.scot/scotland-attracts-four-percent-uk-immigrants/) - and of course there's protest groups south of the border, but the fact of the utter failure of explicitly anti-immigration groups to attract any votes in last week's elections shows that similar attitudes don't translate to similar politics. |
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