Getting The Tone Exactly Wrong

[poliphilo]

"Politics is not a game" seems to be the hastily agreed soundbite for dealing with the second referendum on Scottish Independence. Mrs May used it- in a little speech reeking of condescension and nannyish exasperation- and so did a beardy government spokesman we've never seen before. Apart from being untrue- because politics is exactly that- I can think of no line better calculated to annoy the Scots. So Brexit is a serious matter and Scottish independence isn't? Sod off back to Westminster, Tory scum!

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[sorenr.livejournal.com]

I think Scotland would actually be very welcome in the EU - if nothing else then to spite the UK... But no newcomers would get the sort of deals the UK and Denmark has. And really, I'm not sure those deals are really a benefit to anybody anyway.

As a foreigner I've felt as at-home in Aberdeen as in London - but then that's two very international cities, so I don't really know "Scotland". Or, for that matter, "England". I only know internationally-minded urban places, and that is definitely not all of the UK, just as Copenhagen is not all of Denmark.