The big news today is that the Government has overcome the Lords' amendments to the Bill to empower May to trigger Brexit. She can now invoke Article 50 to leave the EU whenever she wants.
However, the Graudian thought it was more important to register a demand from the Scot Nats to have another referndum on on Scottish independence as a result of not getting a special deal from the UK Government for Scotland alone to stay in the Single Market. It was headline news in my early edition, saying Sturgeon had trumped May.
Since then, Sturgeon and May have been waving their pudenda around in a contest to see who will pull hair the harder.
Sturgeon's speech announcing her decision to call for a new referendum (she needs the UK Government to accede to one), as reported on the BBC at least (!) seemed to set aside the economic difficulties, and skate over the issue of the Scottish currency, in the name of some fantasy about Scottish identity and pride, somehow identified with EU membership. Old fashioned nationalism it seems. She also seems to think that the majority who voted for Remain in Scotland, and some of those in the majority who had voted to stay in the UK in the earlier referendum, would also vote for this old fashioned nationalism.
Such people would now have to place membership of the EU above their preferences for membership in the UK OR people who had voted to be cosmopolitan Europeans would now vote to be narrow Scots.
I remain puzzled by this. What exactly does the EU mean, culturally speaking, to the Remainers? Why is it so important to what they see as their core values and identity? I asked a Remainer in my family -- is it just a good place to go on holiday? She nodded. Is it interesting enough culturally to learn a European language? Silence. How about wanting to live there? Silence.
As I said in my first post -- I am more European culturally speaking than many Remainers, but that doesn't camouflage the failed and sinister economic project of the EU.
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