Important to highlight (often neglected) question: how does UK government's policy choice to pursue only distant future relationship with EU, then impact back upon equally important policy dilemmas still to be made about internal UK governance / future relations? Two examples...
1) more UK diverges from EU, more there is scope for devolved divergence within UK between Scotland, Wales, NIreland & England = problems of "UK Internal Market" become even more pressing, yet remain just as difficult to resolve (while still almost absent from Westminster debate)
2) more UK diverges from EU, more difficult trade & security relations might well become, if and when Scotland votes to become independent sovereign state within EU (assuming what remains of UK is still third country): all those hard/soft border problems will be back again...
Can we be confident that Johnson & his Hard Right Brexit Buddies thought through those really fundamental domestic consequences of their anti-EU, Trump-licking nationalist propaganda about "Global Britain" casting off the Brussels yoke? Answers on a postcard to "Bleeding Obvious"
ps, that's not an argument against Scottish independence! Point is: UK Gov is imposing a policy that limits Scotland's choices / makes them more difficult. So if anything: it's an argument for Scotland to have proper say on own future rather than it be dictated by hostile UK Gov?
