Bird on a Fire wrote: ↑Fri Dec 13, 2019 11:33 am
The border won't be a problem, as the UK will have figured out how to do frictionless borders by then.
*Laughs uncontrollably* You’re joking, right?
If I were Scottish I'd absolutely be going for it. Future in the EU is so much more hopeful than future in the UK.
And if Boris tries to block the referendum from having happening the obvious source of comparison is Catalonia. I don't think anybody would particularly want that mess on their hands. Boris will go for it then try to blag his way to victory - could be third time lucky.
I am a dual national born in Scotland. Last indyref I was 100% against independence because it was basically brexit in all but name and equally as brain-off. With my Scottish-but-foreign hat on, Scottish nationalism looks very like what, in England, remainers see in leavers, but the nationalism doesn’t look
quite so ugly because of the veneer of victimhood.
However, the situation we are in now, is that Westminster is imposing brexit on a devolved region that did not vote for it. Stripping all the nationalism out of that, an appeal to the EU to rescue Scotland from this sh.t seems like a very sensible choice. The effect that has on England, well, not their problem, really. Any talk of that being because of national identity, however, needs to be kept out of it.