Brexit plus Johnson equals this. It is as simple as that.
https://twitter.com/benatipsosmori/status/1316333428585893888
It didn't have to be this way, even with the Leave vote. They could have pursued a compromise position which respected the views of Scotland and NI. They did not.
Instead, only the most extreme and aggressive version of Brexit was tolerated and anyone who disagreed was branded an enemy of the people. So this is where we are.
When the referendum comes, as it inevitably will, many Tories will insist on how much they value Scotland. If that was true, the party would never have elected Boris Johnson to lead it.
None of this would have happened if it was still, at its heart, a conservative party. It is not. It is party representing a kind of Tory Maoism - capable of tearing things down but not building them. The Union is likely to be its next victim.
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