tavyred
Very well known Exeweb poster
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Its been a good few weeks for the Union in Scotland. There’s no ignoring the fact that if things were as the separatists wanted it, Scotland would now be watching the rest of the U.K. vaccinating at pace while Scots would be fighting over the scraps with the rest of the EU. The Salmond/Sturgeon affair would’ve highlighted to many that there are perhaps serious issues with honesty as well as competence at the top of the SNP and the Scottish institutions the nationalists now dominate. I found some of revelations reported this week quite chilling and it would appear this feeling is being shared by a growing number of Scots as well.
This wasn’t the plan of course, the advocates of independence in Scotland and their cheerleaders on the remainer liberal left in England were supposed to witnessing a Brexit disaster, a disaster that would inevitably lead to another referendum and the glorious opportunity for the doom laden and self loathing rejoiners to declare that Brexit was tearing the Union apart. Instead we have had a largely benign exit from the EU’s orbit and we even saw a tangible benefit of Brexit for one of Scotland’s biggest exports when the US lifted the 25% punitive tariffs on whisky it levied in its trade spat with Brussels.
As with the vaccine procurement, I don’t think the SNP has acknowledged that particular Union dividend yet.
This wasn’t the plan of course, the advocates of independence in Scotland and their cheerleaders on the remainer liberal left in England were supposed to witnessing a Brexit disaster, a disaster that would inevitably lead to another referendum and the glorious opportunity for the doom laden and self loathing rejoiners to declare that Brexit was tearing the Union apart. Instead we have had a largely benign exit from the EU’s orbit and we even saw a tangible benefit of Brexit for one of Scotland’s biggest exports when the US lifted the 25% punitive tariffs on whisky it levied in its trade spat with Brussels.
As with the vaccine procurement, I don’t think the SNP has acknowledged that particular Union dividend yet.