What I think he actually meant to say was, respecting party democracy, he would seek to overturn the @UKLabour policy of #FreeMovement at our next annual conference. Top down, policy by diktat rarely ends well.
It does raise the question - why do this now just before the Scottish elections? It simply helps the SNP galvanise their vote in 68% remain Scotland?
Post-Brexit it now seems increasingly clear the Scottish people have two clear choices before them:
1. Union with a declining imperial power, ruled by hard-right, neoliberal English nationalists - or (cont)
2. Vote for Scottish independence and look to rejoin the EU, an emerging power with democratic institutions gaining in power, not receding. Hmmmm 🤔

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1. Anyone who thinks English exceptionalism, nationalism and ‘regulatory realignment’ - the root drivers of Brexit - would have ended with a ‘soft brexit’ ie a customs union or a Norwegian style deal, misunderstands what brexit has always been about.
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