The #Nationalist and anti-immigration agenda that drove #LeaveEU will face many (at least to them) unpleasant surprises in decades to come. If we are to trade with nations from all over the globe we must expect to relax immigration controls. I have no problem with that.
It reveals the abject incoherence in the #LeaveEU cohorts. Free traders, who advocate rigid borders on immigration (some motivated by aversion to diversity or race) are living in a dream world.
Moreover, those who despised a supranational Europe, are now facing serious scrutiny: #NorthernIreland is de facto part of #Europe. Ditto #Gibraltar. Those who claim #Scotland’s quest for Independence is misconceived will be accused of rank hypocrisy.
As someone who would like #Scotland to remain part of the Union, I cannot escape the unfairness the #EUReferendum inflicted upon them - especially since major arguments in #IndyRef centred on their ability to remain in the #EU
Those #Brexiteers who claim that #Nationalism - when demonstrated for by Scots and Welsh - will inflict lower standard of living, reduced GDP and economic harm, denied the very same mischiefs, when put to them, and derided it all as #ProjectFear
There will be no end of a reckoning. Modelling suggests 4% reduction in #UK GDP year on year for some time to come. This would normally be regarded as a catastrophe. If, as @Jacob_Rees_Mogg suggests the true benefits of #Brexit will take 50 years to emerge, what’ll be left?
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