BREXIT

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Why do you present that as a dooms day Armageddon to make an anti Brexit point and yet that is EXACTLY what you want to happen with your quest for scottish independence. 

The priority has to be full single market membership. 



Look I voted for Independence?  Why?


Because I have never voted Tory in my life.  My country hasn’t voted Tory since the 50’s  And the Tory party of the 50’s is not the Tory party we have today.  The Tory party has steadily moved to the right over many decades.


So, Scotland doesn’t vote Tory and Scotland voted decisively to remain in the EU.  In fact, only half the countries that make up the UK voted to leave.


The Scottish parliament will continue to seek and obtain powers, and some sort of settled position will eventually be reached.  That may be full Independence or eventual fiscal autonomy.


Many of us in Scotland want the government we deserve – the governments we vote for, not government imposed on us by another country.


I’m not a rose tinted, or some sort of patriotic nationalist, it’s simply a matter of building the country and the future that we vote for.  England and Scotland sadly continue to grow apart.  That’s a shame but it’s just a fact of life.


We want our country to be the best it can be.  But nor do we want to see our most important trading partner shoot itself in both feet then blow it’s heid clean aff.  How would that be good for our economy?


There are some in Scotland who see BREXIT as an opportunity for Independence.  There are some in the governing party the SNP who also think the same.  We have our equivalents of Boris, Moog, IDS, Redwood etc, but like in England they are a minority. 



So the priority in Scotland is economic, not trashing our economy and future wealth in the hope, and it is only a hope, of independence growing from the smoking remains.