it was ambitious of me to think that I would catch yesterday’s pre-scheduled Post before it hit the fan . London is very diverting.
Anyway, I made it to College Green today. It was interesting. The atmosphere was calm. There was a strongly Remainer vibe – dominated by EU flags and placards questioning the 17.4 million majority vote to leave, calls for a second referendum, and the revoking of Article 50.
i spoke to the police on duty (a light presence, but I’m sure they are behind the scene in numbers) and they said it might get a bit more febril (my word not theirs) later on tomorrow; as long as people behaved, ‘no problem, people have the right to protest’.
There was a lone Scottish Saltire on the railings keeping us off the Green, and back from the large media presence. And I wanted to ask, Where do the Scottish people sit in all this? Scotland voted (strongly) to stay in the EU; most of us see ourselves as part of a strong nation within the European family (economically, culturally, emotionally). We were told that the best way (the only way) to stay in the EU was to stay part of the Union (in the UK).
how can we, the Scottish people, stay close to Europe and England at the same time?
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Scotland has been part of the UK for hundreds of years part of a proud nation of British People who fought together in two world wars and many other wars. It matters not a jot that Scotland voted to stay in as our population is part of the British population and so is bound by the overall British vote. You are forgetting the million plus Scots who voted leave even many SNP voters including the fishing community who have had a bad deal on fishing quotas over the last decade or more. Nicola and her bunch of Numpties from the Scottish Numptie Party would have us as an independent part of Europe using the Euro with a 15 billion deficit in the economy then waste billions on setting up a Scottish army, ministries of defence, agriculture, pensions etc. She and her cronies just love to continually bleat about being dragged out of Europe against Scotland’s will. They and their suupporters are living in cloud cuckoo land and do not realise the benefits of staying in the UK far out way any dreams of being independent.
People in Scotland are fed up with the saltire waving minority seeking “Freedom” , freedom from what? They should be seeking freedom from an overblown, bloated , money wasting , inefficient organisation which has become too big for it’s own good.
Hopefully at the next Holyrood election Nicola and her bunch of whining flag waving nationalists will be ousted and we will have a government who get on with running the country instead of continually obsessing about independence.
Interesting rant Derek. I guess I was unwise to drag Scotland into this Blog – it’s meant to be about me finding clarity in the current Brexit process. I’m no great fan of the lumbering burocratic EU, but it seems to me that we are better off in the EU than we will be out of it. I know there are good reasons to dislike the way the EU goes about its business – I was especially unhappy with the way they treated Cyprus recently. But, if you’ve been reading my Posts, you also know that I think having strong economic and political links across a pan-European family will make our lives safer and more prosperous. Now, I may be wrong – and that is what I’m examining here.
Are we better of In or Out? Will our children understand why we did what we did, and will they benefit or suffer? Is it possible, given the current state of UK politics to conclude the Brexit process with any sort of constructive deal?
I worry, putting aside the Scottish question or, for that matter, any of the United Kingdom’s regional issues, that I is too late. I worry we will leave the EU a fractured and fractions nation.