While true now, until relatively recently it could have been reversed. A second referendum was a real option to undo this omnishambles, and I believe that the EU leadership would have jumped at a do-over that made it all go away. A competent Labour leader could have backed the People’s Vote, made it the centrepiece issue of an election, and would probably be PM right now.
But yes, as of last December, that option was gone.
That’s about right: three years to achieve independence, at least another five years to become a member in the EU (with some of those Norway-style association agreements kicking in earlier). Scottish independence is one of the few separatist movements I support, based as it is not mainly in ethnicity or language or religion but rather in economic and political concerns. A Scotland free of the malign influence of the Tories and re-connected to the benefits of the EU is one I’d like to see, all the more so if it provides a haven for those looking to escape Little England.
I would seriously support a proposal that, for a period of five years, every single high-profile Brexit supporter be required to live directly adjacent to a facility or motorway in Kent that’s going to have to serve the new customs regime.
