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This conflates Britain with the UK, then turns up the emotional dial on behalf of the former, as an argument for sticking with the latter. I do understand and empathise with people who feel this way. 1/6 https://twitter.com/johnrentoul/status/1332737133489106948
We need to remind them that Britain will still be there when Scotland has reclaimed its sovereignty - the island, the light and weather patterns, the landscapes, the dialects, the music, the writing, the architectures and townscapes, the food and traditions and folklore. 2/6
Scotland will still be in Britain. Communities, families and individuals on this island will still have parts of their collective history which is shared and parts of their individual history which is distinct and idiosyncratic. (Just as Brexit cannot stop me being European.) 3/6
What will be gone is a political structure - the UK - which no longer commands the respect or willing consent of more than half of Neil Oliver’s fellow Scots, especially the younger ones. No state or kingdom is permanent, as Oliver acknowledges. 4/6
I do not know if Scotland will be wise in its choices when we govern ourselves again. But I have good reason to hope that it will be better than what we have known in my lifetime. 5/6
And England will be free at last to answer its own pressing questions about its identity, character and choices. It too will find that it lives on a shared British island, in a shared archipelago. I know that Scots will want to be good neighbours. 6/6
