Sister blog of Physicists of the Caribbean in which I babble about non-astronomy stuff, because everyone needs a hobby

Tuesday 8 November 2016

Scotland tries to stop Brexit

The first minister said: "The Scottish government is clear that triggering Article 50 will directly affect devolved interests and rights in Scotland. And triggering Article 50 will inevitably deprive Scottish people and Scottish businesses of rights and freedoms which they currently enjoy. It simply cannot be right that those rights can be removed by the UK government on the say-so of a prime minister without parliamentary debate, scrutiny or consent."
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-37909299

5 comments:

  1. Chris Blackmore, I don't have a good read on British politics, but this seems more like the out that they've been looking for.

    ReplyDelete
  2. Chris Greene Would that it were.Every sensible argument against the insanity of Brexit is the cause of greater determination in the group of loonies currently running this asylum.

    ReplyDelete
  3. ... as distinct from the previous set of loonies from the same backgrounds?

    ReplyDelete
  4. Robert Rambusch Quite so. It has been loonies for most, if not all, of the parts of the last 60 years that I can remember.

    ReplyDelete

Due to a small but consistent influx of spam, comments will now be checked before publishing. Only egregious spam/illegal/racist crap will be disapproved, everything else will be published.

Review : Human Kind

I suppose I really should review Bregman's Human Kind : A Hopeful History , though I'm not sure I want to. This was a deeply frustra...