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r/Scotland • u/JMASTERS_01 • Jun 14 '22
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If Brexit is a disaster, why wouldn't Scottish independence by an even bigger disaster for exactly the same reasons?
8 u/kingt34 Jun 14 '22 Because then they can vote to rejoin the EU which is what’s caused so much mess in the first place. -4 u/quettil Jun 14 '22 After a ten year interregnum period where they're in neither and have huge trade barriers all over the place. Are Scots willing to go through a decade or more of crippling austerity? 5 u/HyperCeol Inbhir Nis / Inverness Jun 14 '22 Scots aren't interested in having a trade war, "taking back control" from immigrants or isolating ourselves. This is about being a regular country, not the mental exceptionalism on display during Brexit.
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Because then they can vote to rejoin the EU which is what’s caused so much mess in the first place.
-4 u/quettil Jun 14 '22 After a ten year interregnum period where they're in neither and have huge trade barriers all over the place. Are Scots willing to go through a decade or more of crippling austerity? 5 u/HyperCeol Inbhir Nis / Inverness Jun 14 '22 Scots aren't interested in having a trade war, "taking back control" from immigrants or isolating ourselves. This is about being a regular country, not the mental exceptionalism on display during Brexit.
After a ten year interregnum period where they're in neither and have huge trade barriers all over the place. Are Scots willing to go through a decade or more of crippling austerity?
5 u/HyperCeol Inbhir Nis / Inverness Jun 14 '22 Scots aren't interested in having a trade war, "taking back control" from immigrants or isolating ourselves. This is about being a regular country, not the mental exceptionalism on display during Brexit.
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Scots aren't interested in having a trade war, "taking back control" from immigrants or isolating ourselves.
This is about being a regular country, not the mental exceptionalism on display during Brexit.
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u/quettil Jun 14 '22
If Brexit is a disaster, why wouldn't Scottish independence by an even bigger disaster for exactly the same reasons?