EU leaders have been called to an emergency meeting on Belarus, as thousands of protesters gathered in Minsk for the largest rally in the country’s recent history.
Now we can expect the EU to meet if the SNP win the majority of seats at Holyrood 2021 on a manifesto of independence. Any refusal by the dictatorial UK to accede to Section 30 must surely cause alarm in European governments!
“The people of Belarus have the right to decide on their future and freely elect their leader,” Charles Michel, president of the European Council, tweeted. The people of Scotland, too, have the right to decide on their future and freely elect their leader and, we can add, determine their future.
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The EU was conspicuous in its support for the UK in 2014 and reinforced the argument that Scotland would only remain in the EU through continued UK membership!
The Anglophiles on the Continent were besotted by the British, aka English, myth and were gutted when the English vote took the UK and Scotland out of the EU against the Scots’ 62% vote to remain in 2016.
As Nicola Sturgeon asserted, an SNP majority win in 2021 will make Johnson’s current indyref stance untenable. (That goes too for the stance of Starmer, his Labour Unionist clone).
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Dictatorial acts happen at Westminster, not just in the former Soviet Union republics! The Scots Claim of Right must be acknowledged.
After Brexit, let the EU governments take note of the continuing democratic deficit here, as it currently does with other countries, and act accordingly by taking diplomatic action, considering sanctions and other measures we know exist to put pressure on dictatorial actions by other states.
At least it can start by acknowledging that Scotland, a member nation of the EU, did vote to remain in the EU. It owes no more “allegiance” to Westminster. London is no longer a member of the Council of Ministers!
John Edgar
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