dimanche, février 04, 2018

BREXIT: Is the [Westminster] Scottish Office preparing to intercept Scotland’s returning EU powers? (Gordon MacIntyre-Kemp - Business for Scotland)


BREXIT: Is the [Westminster] Scottish Office preparing to 
intercept Scotland’s returning 
EU powers?
by Gordon MacIntyre-Kemp 
(Business for Scotland, 2 Feb 2018)

Multiple Brexit impact papers are coming out (some unintentionally) and they are all saying the same thing – that all Brexit options will damage the economy. My own research dating back to 2015 also shows that all Brexit scenarios will be worse for Scotland than for the rest of the UK, and so we now have a UK Government that is deliberately implementing a policy that it knows will damage the economy, and damage Scotland more than the rest of the UK.

[...] A few years ago Alex Salmond famously stated that “Scotland wasn’t oppressed by the UK”. However, the leaked Brexit impact report now provides the evidence that the UK Government is acting in a way that wilfully economically oppresses Scotland.

That said I fear an even bigger betrayal of Scotland and its devolved parliament is in the pipeline.
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