Brexit three years on – still an unmitigated disaster for Scotland

Primary Author or Creator:
Ross Mcalinden
Publisher:
Business for Scotland
Alternative Published Date
2023
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"It has now been... three years since the UK left the EU in direct conflict with the stated democratic will of the Scottish people." 

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"By rejoining the EU, Scotland will be back in the world’s biggest single market. We will regain access to the highly skilled workers from Europe and see freedom of movement restored. Quickly we will see European workers who are essential to the NHS, hospitality, and construction sectors return, filling the labour shortages left behind by Brexit. 

At this very moment, the UK Government is hard at work making this as difficult as possible. The Brexit Freedoms Bill will sunset all EU-related law still on UK statute books on December 31st 2023. While claiming to allow the UK to replace these laws with their own, this act can be seen as a deliberate attempt by Westminster to make it more difficult for an independent Scotland to rejoin the EU. It is a cold and calculated action aimed at Giving UK Ministers unheard of powers to change laws without democratic oversight and hamstring Scotland when it inevitably achieves its independence by forcing unwanted divergence of Scottish laws from EU laws and regulations for zero benefit. 

An independent Scotland inside the EU will free itself from the unequal, unfair, high-cost, failing, Brexit-based UK economy and we can thrive through the creation of an inclusive, wellbeing-based economic approach. 

Scotland can no longer afford to be shackled to the UK political and economic system which has failed time and again. Independence offers us the opportunity to fully realise our true potential and the sooner we achieve it, the better. It is time to give up on Broken Britain and believe in Scotland."

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