Question: If May pushed forward with Brexit and loses Scotland, is that good or bad for the Tories? On the one hand, the PM who lost Scotland is not a good look.
They've already proved themselves adept at seizing the right moments to shove public opinon in their direction. It'd probably be worth the risk for the SNP either way it wasn't so long ago that they were a distinctly minority party, IIRC. They didn’t vote for the scapegoating of foreigners." posted by stevedawg (123 comments total)Īn American politician would have conducted a shitload of polls before going out on this limb, wonder if she did.that is, I'm certain that as a leader of the SNP Sturgeon thinks as a matter of principal Scotland should be independent, but is she going into this game of chicken with May with conviction on her side, or conviction and the numbers, too? They didn’t vote for our businesses to face tariffs or for holiday-makers to need visas. They didn’t vote to lower their own living standards or to sacrifice jobs and investment. They didn’t vote to throw economic rationality out of the window.
They may have voted to take back control.īut I can’t imagine many of them voted to hand control to the unholy trinity of Boris Johnson, David Davis and Liam Fox. But I suspect that many of those who voted to Leave, look now at the actions and rhetoric of the Tories and think ‘that’s not what I voted for’. They did so for a range of legitimate reasons and as first minister, I have a duty to listen to, to understand and to respond to these reasons. "Of course, I know that one million of our fellow citizens voted to Leave. Sturgeon said that even though 1m Scots voted for Brexit, they did not vote for the hard Brexit now on offer from the Tories. She accused the Conservatives of embracing Ukip-style xenophobia and said their views had “no place in a civilised society”. The prime minister may have a mandate to take England and Wales out of the EU but she has no mandate whatsoever to remove any part of the UK from the single market. She made remaining in the single market Scotland’s key priority. In some respects, this sounded more like a negotiating gambit than a statement of intent.
If that’s the insecure, unstable prospect we face as part of the UK, then no one will have the right to deny Scotland the chance to choose a better future.She said the Scottish government would publish an independence referendum bill next week. If you can’t - or won’t - allow us to protect our interests within the UK, then Scotland will have the right to decide, afresh, if it wants to take a different path.Ī hard Brexit will change the UK fundamentally.Ī UK out of the single market - isolated, inward looking, haemorrhaging jobs, investment and opportunities - will not be the same country that Scotland voted to stay part of in 2014.
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