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#BrexitReality
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1) Jon, I keep finding myself comparing the Govt's attitude to Brexit to that of the Yes campaign in Scotland in the run-up to the 2014 Independence referendum. For months, Alex Salmond and his team were able to avoid taking seriously warnings about the economic impacts of Yes's
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2) proposals for Scottish independence. From soon after it's very public launch, the SNP's 'White Paper on Independence' was criticised for its content, most of which was little more than aspirational fluff and a wish list, lacking any hard facts/substance. Yet this did not deter
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3) Salmond and the Yes campaign team (officially headed by Blair Jenkins, but there was never any doubt that Salmond was in real charge), who, for months, kept breezily dismissing the growing reports of likely economic damage from independence with a mixture of chest-thumping
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rhetoric, land-of-milk-and-honey statements, false information and a fallback attitude of 'just believe/och, trust me, it'll be fine.....' This worked against those of us on the pro-UK side for a while as we came across as gloomy and putting Scotland down. A very suspiciously
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5) pro-Yes MSM, such as BBC Scotland (whose Scottish Political Editor, Brian Taylor
@TannadiceLad, is thought to be an old Uni chum of Alex Salmond's from St. Andrews), STV (ITV across most of Scotland), and papers such as The Scottish Sun and Sunday Herald, helped Yes with thisBedankt, Twitter gebruikt dit om je tijdlijn te verbeteren. Ongedaan makenOngedaan maken
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6) approach, in much the same way as the DM, Telegraph, BBC et al are helping the Brexiter's now. As a result, we pro-UKers got increasingly fearful as the referendum date approached, fearing that Salmond and Yes would whip-up too many Yes votes through their approach. Then, in
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7) the last weeks of the campaign, businesses, large and small, began to speak out. Banks, supermarket chains et al started to state that they would be forced to raise prices/relocate if Scotland broke away from the UK. Soon, Yes found itself in trouble, over this and Salmond's
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uncredible claims about Scotland receiving quick EU membership, a shared currency with the Rest of the UK (clearly refused by George Osborne), the size of Scotland's public deficit - a direct obstacle to EU membership etc. As these facts began to pile-up, Yes and Salmond
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8) increasingly struggled to convincingly refute them, and the Yes campaign began to lose momentum (Salmond's demolition by Alaistair Darling in the 1st Referendum TV debate, and his losing it at Nick Robinson at a Glasgow press conference, were symptoms of this). As a result
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I voted no in 2014 because I was worried about leaving the EU. That worked out very well not. I’ll be voting yes at indyref2 if only to put clear blue water between me and the right wing loonies currently in charge down south.
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