Why does same logic not apply?

It also marks the triumph of the hard right in the Conservative party, effectively supplanting UKIP as a political movement. Who needs UKIP now when you have their theories put into practice by the party of government in the UK?

Those hard liners also see a chance to parade their strength in response to Nicola Sturgeon’s opportunistic but inevitable request for a referendum on Scottish independence.

The hard right’s most telling argument against Scottish independence is that it would be too big a risk to break away from the rest of the UK, which is where the Scots sell over half their goods and services.

Are they so blinkered they cannot see the supreme irony of their argument when set against Brexit? If it is according to them economic madness for Scotland to leave their biggest home market, does not the same logic apply to the UK leaving its biggest home market, the EU?

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