“The Scottish Government also appears to be deeply committed to devolution“
Which seems to be true and a whole other layer of political problem.
Make no mistake, this is all political - freedom, sovereignty, borders, free trade etc etc (and I’m not just meaning Scotland...)
NS/SNP have things to think about that don’t really have equivalents in Downing Street.
Boris and co are UK Unionists or perhaps, now, GB Unionists - ‘there will be no border in the Irish Sea’.
They only want the the ‘right sort of immigrants’ with ‘numbers in the 10s of thousands’.
Expect (apparently) there might be (very unlikely of course) 2m coming from HK - just because ‘China is being beastly to them’, and/or ‘the Chinese don’t respect the rule of law’.
So many reasons Scotland MIGHT be better off without having to rely on UK Govs. Alternatively, strong reasons for better devolution.
‘Scotland’ is not, currently, high on Downing Street/Westminster’s priorities list.
Significant changes of policy/direction seem quite easy to current Gov. Maybe it will decide to give up responsibility for North Britain - without even bothering with a referendum. It would make the Westminster arithmetic easier - they must be realising they won’t be retaining many red wall’ seats.
Perhaps they will suggest redrawing the border somewhere north of Leeds?
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