PETE Wishart delivered an impressive Tory putdown in Parliament this evening.
Taking to the floor after Lee Rowley, who said "we have to leave" the EU on March 29, Wishart said it was "not a pleasure at all" to speak after the Tory MP.
"I will never support their Brexit. I will not support anything that makes my constituents poorer. I will not support the end of freedom of movement that will decimate businesses in my constituency... And I will never ever accept the fact that the rights I enjoyed to live, to work, to love across a continent will be denied to future generations of young people. I will never, ever accept this," he said.
Wishart slammed the Tories for taking Scotland, a "beautiful, consensual nation out of European Union against its national collective will" in what he described as "perhaps the greatest post-war political disaster in our politics".
Referrring to how the situation is "almost an entirely Tory Brexit", Wishart said "this chaos will be the party's legacy".
He urged MPs to back the SNP's amendment to prevent a no-deal Brexit which was earlier defeated as Scottish Tories and English Labour rebels combined to vote it down by 36 votes.
READ MORE: SNP amendment to prevent a no-deal Brexit defeated in Commons
Calling for indyref2, Wishart said Scotland can "get off this sinking ship" and said Scotland deserves better to aspire to "Brexit Britain".
"We will be that independent nation. An indepenent nation within the European Union," he concluded.
Watch the full speech below.
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