SCOTLAND’S forced removal from the EU guarantees a loss of employment, prosperity and many personal freedoms which European citizenship confers. Westminster will centralise key devolved powers for seven years, whilst the humiliation of EU nationals looks to be indefinite. With exclusion from EU inter-state security cooperation, terrorist threats are predicted to rise. Who knew? Finally, the primary reason for the EU’s creation begins to unravel: alliances for lasting peace. We have reasons to be mournful.
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By contrast, BoJo the clever clown plans a happy, hyperactive party of jingoistic speeches, bong-bonging, fireworks and a laser light show, with cathedral bells. And how will super-power presidents, digital empire CEOs, arms dealers and global financiers view this grotesque spectacle? With a smile.
Anyone wishing to mark the day differently is invited to wear funeral dress and gather outside the Scottish Parliament this Friday. Standing in silence beside a “gravestone” inscribed “BREXIT – Not in Scotland’s Name”, we will signify our resolute defiance to a watching world.
Fraser McAllister
Musselburgh
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