Fraser Nelson is joined by Alex Massie and James Forsyth to discuss IndyRef2:
When will the politics ever end? Now Nicola Sturgeon says she wants a second Scottish independence referendum, and so we plunge ourselves – wearily but no less determined – into yet another fight to save our country. The nationalists operate on the principle of being a persistent irritant. Demand independence so often and so annoyingly that eventually the country just says: ‘Have it, if it will shut you up.’
But no. We proud Unionists cannot submit to the SNP’s logic that independence is ‘only a matter of time’. We have to fight this. And we can win.
First, let me shoot down the Brexit myth. The argument goes that because Scotland voted Remain and Theresa May ‘insists’ upon a hard Brexit, Scotland will inevitably want to leave the UK to stay in the single market.
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