DURING these calamitous Brexit years many people have joined the SNP because it promised another independence referendum if Scotland was dragged out of the EU against its wishes. Since this is happening, despite the 2014 Better Together campaign promise that the only way to retain EU membership was to remain in the UK, these “changed circumstances” make indyref 2 now inevitable.
Even former UK Prime Ministers John Major and Tony Blair agree that the arguments for Scottish independence have now been greatly strengthened and, to quote Blair’s outburst, “absolutely bloody obvious”.
As one of the nations in the so-called “union of equals”, the United Kingdom, the interests of Scotland have been ignored, while the dependent province of Northern Ireland and the self-governing colony of Gibraltar are bribed or rather given special Brexit dispensation!
What does this say about this fractious and disintegrating UK, governed by a divided and xenophobic Tory party? Brexit is and always has been an exercise in English nationalism, wrapped in a British imperial Union flag.
Grant Frazer
Newtonmore
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