Ten years after Brexit, everybody is angry.
It is important to repeat: the Leave campaign in 2016, like the Westminster government of the time, had no plan for what happened if they were successful. The current Ukanian government has no plan for Europe and what kind of relationship it should have with the EU, so algorithmically shackled is it to the short term and the reactive economy of outrage. This is why Keir Starmer made so many wrong decisions, so many spectacular and comic U-turns and why there has been seven PM’s in ten years. The only theory in Westminster is one of survival and they have not worked that one out very well either. As for society – and Scotland – they are just resources to be extracted for immediate gain. Until the Scottish government win-at some smeddum and formulate a national policy for harnessing the wealth generated by land and energy Scotland will remain subject to this spiralling incompetence. We need to move beyond fantasy, force, anger, and outrage. And soon. In Scotland, it has proven politically and socially fatal to forget history. Ten years after Brexit this fact has never shone so clearly – and that peace, dignity and equality on a healthy planet is possible.