Tag: EU referendum
Euref: beyond national identity
Six weeks to the Brexit poll and another test of constitutional and identity political feeling. Facts and logic may play a role but our sense of who we are will be decisive. And what we fear about the wider world.
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Scotland shakes up the Brexit cards
The Remain and Leave campus are neck-and-neck in the run-up to the June 23 EU referendum so where does that leave Scotland – and Nicola Sturgeon’s on-off desire for #indyref2 in the event of a vote for Brexit? Four scenarios set out here…
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Scotland and EU: a truer cost/benefit analysis
Scottish Vote Leave has claimed that Brexit would bring an extra £1.5bn a year to Scotland’s budget. But the claim is erroneous as a leading economist explains here.
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Brexit would be a rotten fish policy
Taking back control of fisheries policy – and “our” fish – is a key demand of Brexiteers in their quest for restored national sovereignty. But the fish don’t respect national borders and, anyway, the UK is free to distribute its own quotas. The EU is helping to replenish stocks.
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A solution to my Holyrood dilemma
How do students and other young people plan to vote on May 5? In the first of a series the author considers the case for Scottish Labour getting his crucial second vote but opts instead for the Greens to counter-balance a constituency vote for the SNP.
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