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Don’t most anti-Brexit arguments have direct anti-independence analogues?
by carnitine 4y ago
Don’t most anti-Brexit arguments have direct anti-independence analogues?
- hardlianotion 4y agoNeither Brexiters nor Scottish independence supporters like to be reminded of this.
- cstross 4y agoYes, with one key difference: the Brexit campaigners insisted that the UK was being tyrannized and forced to implement policies set in Brussels by the EU (despite having full political representation in making those policy decisions), whereas Scotland is ultimately under UK control -- large elements of public policy are reserved for Westminster, which means control by a succession of governments Scotland hasn't voted for since 1955. (The first part of this is a side-effect of UK governments since the late 1980s blaming their own unpopular public policies on the EU, aided and abetted by certain elements of the British media who made bank by painting the EU as some kind of continental political supervillain bent on tormenting the UK, rather than a political process the UK had full participation in. One of those most prominent of those journalists being one Boris Johnson ...)
- ErikCorry 4y agoScotland hasn't voted for the government since 1955? 2005, largest party in Scotland was Labour, Labour won the UK election. same for 2001, 1997, 1974 (both elections), 1966, 1964. Until recently Scotland always voted Labour, and Labour didn't always win. But you could say the same about most Northern English cities, that doesn't mean they should form a new country.
- matthews2 4y ago> that doesn't mean they should form a new country https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Independence_Party https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Independence_Party
- PaulKeeble 4y agoAnd Scotland would be voting for independence so it could join the EU.
- Gordonjcp 4y agoNot really, no. Can you give an example of one?