I never understood the campaign for an independent Scotland.... Until now [View all]

The London Economic
By Jack Peat
June 15, 2019

...Like many people, my thoughts on IndyRef at the time were not dissimilar to my attitude towards Brexit. It was, in my opinion, a nationalistic, populist, narrow-minded bid to reclaim what control Scotland had purportedly lost at the hands of Westminster, but it would ultimately be a punishing move to erect borders in an increasingly open World.

Of course, Brexit supersedes all of that. Brexit takes Scotland out of the European Union. It dictates its trading relationships with countries on its doorstep, it impacts the country’s prosperity, jobs, connectivity and its ability to compete against comparative countries.

The effect it has will ultimately be dictated by the path the United Kingdom takes out of the European Union, but even that will be out of their hands. Put simply, Scotland is about to be governed by a new UK Prime Minister elected by 160,000 Tory members, of which only 9,000 are based in Scotland, from a party that hasn’t won a major election in Scotland in 64 years, to deliver a Brexit that 62 per cent of Scotland’s voters rejected, and if that doesn’t justify another chance at independence I don’t know what does.

https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/opinion/i-never-understood-the-campaign-for-an-independent-scotland-until-now/15/06/