Far too many people are trying to read things in the statistics to suit their own hopes or agenda.
Let me tell you how I voted and why. I voted SNP. Not because I am pro independence, I'm at best very undecided having been a resolute No last time round.
My first concern in this GE was that I didn't think either of the two main parties, mainly by dint of their leaders, deserved my vote. Boris is a bumbling, self-serving buffoon who has proven beyond all doubt that not a single word he says can be believed. He has no respect for anything besides his own ego. he treats the both law and parliamentary convention with utter contempt. Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is rotting in an Iranian prison because of his utter incompetence.
Corbyn, well I cannot ignore the concerns of the Jewish community and I believe he has done the square root of fuck all to deal with the anti-semitic elements in his party. Then there's the fact that whilst I agree to some extent in the principle that essential services should not be privatised (in an ideal world), he has done nothing whatsoever to reassure me that his plans for a mass re-nationalisation campaign are remotely credible or workable. He has shown no flair for leadership at a time when being leader of the opposition should have been a walk in the park.
TLDR: neither leader of the two main parties is, IMHO, fit for public office, far less the position of prime minister.
So I can't vote for either the Conservatives or Labour and this was such an important election I could not afford to waste my vote. My constituency is a two horse race between the Tories and SNP, nobody else has a cat's chance in hell. So I voted SNP. I knew the SNP would claim my vote as a mandate for independence but it's not. At most it's a begrudged mandate for a referendum. Frankly, I'd rather not have a referendum but I'd take incurable, suppurating genital warts over Boris as PM. So I voted SNP and I'll worry about IndyRef when the time comes.
All this is the fault of those who fought for and voted for Brexit. They can tell me until they are blue in the face that they knew what they were voting for. They didn't because they couldn't. The problem is they are too fucking thick to realise that and I really do not care if that offends anyone so don't waste your breath objecting. There are too many complexities, too many unknowns. Predicting the final outcome of the UK exiting the EU is like trying to predict the weather on a specific day in 5 years time - it is the very definition of chaos theory. Yet for some reason enough people lacked the intelligence to realise that jumping off a cliff blind-folded into a black void was not a particularly sensible idea. I have to live with their decision. They will have to live with mine.