Wednesday 23 October 2019

Scotland for Europe

There is no solution to Brexit. The country is divided. We 'Remainers' think of the other side as Neanderthals, knuckle-draggers and racist fools. They no doubt harbour the same opprobrium towards us, only potentially more violent, and with bells on.
But there is a solution, before the UK descends into civil war and the rat-taste-funny jokes become reality.
Watch. Scotland to leave the United Kingdom (it's doomed anyway) and rejoin/stay in the European Union. England to leave, bye bye. Wales and Northern Ireland to make up their minds: me, I don't care much either way. I'm not a politician.
Scotland then. It would, as an independent country, first of all need to establish who are its citizens: who has Scottish nationality (and a Scottish/EU passport). Because as things are now, there's no such thing. Currently, you're a Brit, with British nationality.
The Scots, de jure, would be those people who live there, plus those Scots by birth who are living somewhere else, plus those who had Scottish grandparents, plus -and why not- anyone else in the British isles who wanted to swear fealty to Scotland.  It would be the right time for Edinburgh to be generous and open (a true European sentiment). Come all ye huddled masses. Know the difference between a sporran and a bagpipe, the recipe for haggis, sing a quick verse of Marie's Wedding, and then, it's a Tartan Passport for you the noo.
Meanwhile, those eccentric Scots and the others who admire Brexit and its noble independence from the European jackboot (yadda yadda) to become, at the stroke of a pen, Englishmen.
Do you see, we could live where we wanted within the British Isles, while holding Scottish or English ID papers, the first allowing the holder full European rights, the second withholding them.
Of course, the borders between the EU and England would slow things down for those south of Hadrian's Wall, but, hey, that's politics.
Something else to think on: without the Brexit issue, we'd all live peacefully again. 

1 comment:

  1. Hi Lennox, as a Brit with a Scottish parent & grandparents, a shud be awright. I have even made & cooked ma ain haggis, & I love rain (years of living in Edinburgh0, so aid fit in awright. Not sure aboot the we wifee, though, she hates the midges. Cheers. John Shaw, Admin, Fair Deal Forum!

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