If there had been a Remain vote in the EU referendum, then would Nicola Sturgeon not have bothered with a second referendum on Scottish independence?
I only ask.
Political prisoner, activist, journalist, hymn-writer, emerging thinktanker, aspiring novelist, "tribal elder", 2019 parliamentary candidate for North West Durham, Shadow Leader of the Opposition, "Speedboat", "The Cockroach", eagerly awaiting the second (or possibly third) attempt to murder me.
I've never before in my life heard of a nationalist independence campaigner who spends her life campaigning fervently against a popular vote for nationalism and independence.
ReplyDeleteHer cause and her party are hilariously misnamed.
Oh, no, their position makes perfect sense in its terms. They deny that there is, or that there was ever intended to be, a nation called the United Kingdom.
DeleteTo them, it is just a kind of customs union that got out of hand, and into which they were conned in the first place.
But my question still stands.
Then why would they go to all that trouble just to join another nation and customs union?
ReplyDeleteThey prefer it to the other one. It would never let them in, though.
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