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And then complain via the Mail and Express they have it in for us.
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At the time of the ref I tried to make this point a lot. Partly because I felt "conceding" to an element of the leave argument makes you look less partizan. But I followed it up with asking outside of a cute intellectual argument what the real benefit would be.
We've ended up exactly where lots of people said we'd be; a rule taker not a rule maker.
Anyway I think Scotland should stay. Stronger together and all that. They will be a small voice in Europe and eventually have their financial services sapped away as the EU introduces tougher regs which they have no power to influence. They could try and carve out a niche being physically located next to us, but I think by the time they get into the EU Ireland will be too powerful and all the other random little niches will be held by places like Malta. There is also a real risk of losing a shit tonne of money when they switch to the Euro as by leaving GBP would be decimated.
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^^True, but if you look at how often the laws that were made were what we wanted it's a remarkable hit rate. We had huge influence, which we then pissed up the wall to become a laughing stock.