Time is running out for the SNP, which increasingly stands exposed as just another party of NHS privatisation and all that. We told you so.
The Parliament of the United Kingdom should now enact primary legislation to rule out any referendum on Scottish independence before 18th September 2044, 30 years after the last one.
Parliament cannot bind its successors, but this would make the point.
Scotland’s on the way out-no country can be held in union against its will. The United Kingdom only works as a voluntary union and the SNP will use this to say Scotland is being held prisoner in the UK (and by the “Supreme Court”, a radical and unBritish Blairite invention). Scotland’s departure will be rather good, taking with it a huge chunk of the pro-EU, high tax, pro immigration anti British vote and leaving England free to vote exclusively on our own laws without spending our taxpayers money on a foreign healthcare and welfare state that we no longer have any say over.
ReplyDeleteWhen they say they hate Brexit and the Tories they really mean they hate England.
Brexit is in the process of being reversed specifically in order to suit the South of England. Your Singapore-on-Thames idea was tried for a few weeks, and let's just that even that was longer than anyone could possibly have endured it.
DeleteYou have more chance of Singapore-on-Leith, what with the SNP's leaked plan to charge wealthy people to use the NHS. Try suggesting that in South West Surrey. It would go down as well as leaving the EU did. That is why leaving the EU has never fully happened, and is now being reversed. The South has risen, and this is the result.
It will never be reversed in our lifetimes having now been accepted by an Opposition that has moved so far from the Corbyn era that it now talks of "weaning our economy off immigration"- and when it comes to Brexit, it was the English and the South wot won it. 37% of Labour and a massive 60% of Tory voters voted Leave, and the majority of Leave votes came from the South. Look at the electoral map.
ReplyDeleteWhat "Singapore-on-the Thames was tried for a few weeks"? The only thing anyone tried for a few weeks was a limitless welfare handout to all households called an Energy Price Guarantee, the farthest thing you could get from "Singapore-on-the-Thames." The reversal of those few weeks only showed what the Right always knew-unfunded spending (or tax cuts) doesn't work.
Tax cuts only work when accompanied with spending cuts since the whole point of them is the redistribution of wealth from the unproductive to the productive sector of the economy, thereby creating more.
The Tories are desperately fighting off the Lib Dems in the South by planning to re-join the Single Market and the Customs Union, plus joining Schengen into the bargain, but it has leaked, so they are going to have to find a subtler way of going about it. They will, though. And I'd keep your "singular" reading of the Truss Era to yourself, if I were you.
DeleteThat Rishi Sunak and Jeremy Hunt can see all of these things perfectly clearly is why they are where they are and you are not. That we can also see them is why we are not there, either.
The SNP always think that fact they want something is a good enough reason for it to happen.
ReplyDeleteIn Scotland, it is. They find anything else utterly discombobulating.
Deleteplanning to re-join the Single Market and the Customs Union, plus joining Schengen into the bargain
ReplyDeleteThat will never happen, and the PM and Chancellor ruled out the Single Market today. As I say when the Scottish say they hate Brexit and the Tories they mean they hate England, as both are identified exclusively with us.
Oh, you dear, sweet, simple child.
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