How does independence sit in the framework of a Europe wide state run by an unelected bureaucracy, and with a parliament in which party majorities are set by political groups from much larger states? Do they really understand what being in the EU would mean to a nation of some six million people? The UK, like Europe and the USA has been under attack from the Covid pandemic, international economic problems and political issues that are dividing societies.ĭebates on the BBC suggest that voting for independence is increasingly popular in Scotland with many wanting to be ‘in the EU’. What I do argue is that politicians and the media have lost the plot. Now I have to make it absolutely clear that I do not in any way suggest that Sturgeon or the Scottish Nationalist Party are breaking or have broken any laws in this respect. Certainly Britain is engaged with allies in a new Cold War. The question many are asking is why Sturgeon is pressing for one next year? War has not been announced, but to some campaigning for a referendum that might break up the UK while the country is technically, morally or in-effect at war is “seditious”.

The UK has accepted that another referendum might be appropriate after 2050. Some of us are aware that significant support has been given to the SNP by people connected to Brussels. The EU has repeatedly encouraged Scottish independence by suggesting that an application for an independent Scotland to join would be looked on favorably. Film of Ukrainian soldiers training on Salisbury Plain in England seems to bear out the view of the Russian leader.

At least that is what we are told although Vladimir Putin takes a different view. Neither the European Union, nor the United Kingdom are technically at war - yet. Spain is not the only state that has imposed draconian penalties on separatists. Of course, a large part of Catalonia lies within France and that is surely why Brussels took no action to defend democratic principles within its borders. The scandal beneath what many regard as shocking is that the European Union (apart from what might best be described as ‘muttering’) took no action. They have, so far as I can ascertain, all been released but remain barred from being politicians. The result was the arrest of political leaders, their conviction and sentencing to long terms of imprisonment for sedition. It is the prospect of a referendum to be organised by Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and her party on independence, and an application to the High Court to approve its legality.Īs someone who has worked both inside the EU administration and as a journalist in Brussels the announcement brought back a key memory. But another event has dominated the news in Britain. The news in recent days has focused on military aid to Ukraine, and the enlargement and strengthening of NATO with America sending troops and jets to Europe and the UK. Posted on 'Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception,' - George Orwell

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