Well, yeah, I think he will continue to mind about nuclear weapons, but the issue here is that while a lot has been discussed about the politics, I have seen very little about What Would James Do :). As it is cannon in the series, Bond is Scottish.
In the real world I saw reports from the press and tabloids on items like how MI5 And MI6 were suspected of working to derail the independence movement of Scotland, and OTOH Scotland was planning to have their own version of MI6 if independence had been voted for. I think it would be fun to speculate on what James Bond would do, like: Do you think that he would stay at MI6 or jumped to lead a new Scottish secret agency?
I think also the answer depends on what version of Bond we deal with. The latest movie Bond would seen to me as more willing to bury his past and keep allegiance to the Queen.
Indeed the current Queen of England has reported that she would had been proud to be the queen of Scotland but there is a twist:
IIUC this means that Scotland will keep the queen, but they can not remove the fact that she remains queen for all Britain. So I do think that even in this case the Craig Bond will stay at MI6.
If you recall the opening ceremony of the 2012 Olympics, Bond already has a personal connection with her. She’d probably be pragmatic and send him to assassinate Charles, then abdicate in favour of William. The fervour of a new Royal era would prevent secession.
No problem, I like it when I get corrected, as an ESL guy, grammar is still a monster that I need to slay, and it was one of the reasons I became a doper. and that is supposed to be “making”
So…
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James Bond uses his secret watch radio: “Q, I need to find more smoke screen canisters for the Aston Martin.”
A recorded voice rises from the face of the clock: “For the British Commonwealth Q group, press 1. For the Scotland Q office press 2. For all other allied offices press #.”
No, I mean he’d presumably join the Scottish covert-ops organization as a secret agent while still showing up for work in the Double-0 branch of Her Majesty’s Secret Service.
outlierrn: valid point, but bureaucracies are terribly jealous, and there would probably be some chowderheaded PUS who’d demand absolute clarification of allegiances. He’d send around a form that Bond couldn’t sign in good conscience, and this would lead to another episode of Bond resigning to go and have adventures on his own. Then he’d come back when needed, and everyone would just forget about the form.
But, yeah, I think he’d stay with the larger organization because it has more resources. How many foreign Stations would the Scottish Secret Service have? MI6 has them in just about every major city in the world.
Another possibility is that Bond would resign in protest, and get taken up into The Village.
Good reference to the