Not only has Brexit, which most Scots did not vote for, been an economic disaster for the UK. The same snake-oil salesman, ten years later, is making similar vacuous boasts without questions being raised about his past dishonest and grossly misleading rhetoric.
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Perhaps the conspiracy of silence among media commentators could actually lead to the long overdue reconstitution of the “United Kingdom”, as should the UK withdraw from the European Convention on Human Rights, Northern Ireland could lead the way in removing overriding control from Westminster.
That said, the many merits of Scotland’s independence should by now be self-evident to those with open minds to the future constitutional arrangements of the UK, and it would be a sad day if it took the election of the British establishment’s stooge as Prime Minister to make people here realise that we should, indeed, be determining our own future.
Stan Grodynski
Longniddry, East Lothian