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^^ What's incredible to me is people comparing apples to oranges when it comes to the UK and EU. To try and suggest the current 27 member states of the EU aren't independent countries is ridiculous. The only truly independent countries are rogue states like North Korea, every other country on Earth share a small proportion of their sovereignty with others for their own benefit. Scotland in the UK is little more than a region, most of our decisions are being made by a government we didn't vote for. Completely different from EU members like Germany, France, Ireland Denmark etc. Even tiny EU members like Malta get the government and policies they vote for.

^^I agree, as long as Scotland remains in the UK putting up with governments and policies it doesn't want is something they'll just have to swallow, no sympathy from me either.

As long as Scotland is in the UK the chances are the vast majority of the Scottish electorate will have to put up with a Government they didn't vote for and endure being dragged out of the EU against their will.

Why are the environmentalists Extinction Rebellion forcing thousands of people to take their cars to work by disrupting public transport in London?

The EU has, and always will have a much stronger hand than the UK alone in trade negotiations. Anybody who thinks we'll get more favourable international trading arrangements than the ones the EU's negotiated on our behalf is in for a shock imho.

If only there was a way to multiply our clout through some sort of mutual trading association that could stand up for our interests. Unbelievably there's people out there who think the USA and Trump will be our saviours after Brexit, if they're willing to do this against the biggest, wealthiest, and most powerful trading bloc in the world what'll happen when we leave it?

The Enabling Act of 1933, was an amendment passed on 23 March 1933 to the Weimar Constitution that gave the German Cabinet—in effect, Chancellor Adolf Hitler—the power to enact laws without the involvement of the Reichstag. We all know what happened next. Deliberately shutting down or bypassing parliament to force through the governments will is a very dangerous precedent, history's full of examples of dictatorships who came to power by taking advantage of chaotic circumstances. The people who planned to bypass parliament at Westminster have been found guilty by our highest court, now it's time for the punishment.

Boris and his authoritarian Tory government have tried to bypass parliament twice and both times they've been found guilty of abusing their power by the highest court in the land. Thankfully in this country we've learned from history that the best way to prevent tin pot dictators taking over is to force them to abide by the rule of law. The only problem for me is where is the punishment? Anybody involved should be expelled from parliament and forbidden to stand for office again imho.

Scotland's highest civil court has ruled the UK government's shutting down parliament stunt illegal.

Yes we're in a global marketplace, we already trade globally as part of the EU.The problem for us going it alone is the world's full of sharks, having the world's biggest and most powerful trading bloc negotiating international deals on our behalf has helped prevent us from becoming shark food. Common sense dictates a trading bloc with 28 rich developed countries (combined population 500 million) can throw its weight around a good bit more in negotiations than we could alone. The deals they've already negotiated have been so good the UK government's been desperately trying to replicate them. The EU has 236 international treaties with 168 countries and 40 free trade deals with 70 countries, I don't know how many of them have been rolled over or are likely to be rolled over, we'll just have to keep our fingers crossed that none of these countries/sharks smell blood and see Brexit as an opportunity to reopen these [treaties], to get more out of the UK.

they won’t budge, because they had the upper hand in the negotiations from the start, and they see no reason to offer anything better, due to the way the uk have handled the negotiations. The UK has made a backside if this since Cameron first went to the EU looking for some changes, the EU refused and before we knew it our future membership of the EU was at the ballot box. Since then our government had continued to handle this badly, be it the Moggs, Johnson, May, Corbyn, Sturgeon and many more. People were asked to vote, based on the information at the time. To lay the blame at the doors of those who chose leave is unfair. They won't offer anything better than they already have simply because it would go directly against their own interests, when Leave said we'd get single market access and have complete control over immigration, they must've forgottten to add the fact the EU would never agree to free movement of goods, capital, services and not labour, the four freedoms are too important to them.They're not going to let the UK flood their market with cheap chlorinated chicken from the USA, or any other product that doesn't meet their standards. The second we leave the single market and the customs union there's going to be checks on everything going from the UK to the EU regardless of what we do with goods coming from the other direction. This isn't the EU punishing us or playing hardball because they have the upperhand in negotiations, this is the EU protecting themselves, the Leave campaigns were selling us pie in the sky fantasy to suggest otherwise. I notice Sturgeon and Corbyn get a mention in the blame game, the Scottish Government's been frozen out of EU negotiations and any concerns they've put forward have been completely ignored. The opposition parties in Westminster have fared no better, while sensible government might have tried to get some kind of consensus going on the Tories have been using very dodgy tactics to circumvent parliament altogether. Why's it unfair to suggest leave voters take responsibility for their decision? I do have sympathy for the people who believed the lies and now regret it but we all make decisions everyday and have to live with the consequences, thats life.

Which proves that those who voted leave knew full well (or could and should have known) precisely what they were voting for, a no deal exit from the EU. Nope, they could've delivered the Brexit result, left the EU and maintained access to the single market like Norway and the other EFTA countries.That's what the leave campaign were selling at the time, it's the option that would've caused the least damage.The Tory government alone took that option off the table, not the EU.

The truth of this is staring everybody in the face, it's easily checked.Without a doubt there's people out there who want Brexit no matter what, medicine shortages, food shortages, pound crashing, companies up and leaving etc all an acceptable price to pay but there also must be people out there who swallowed the lies and now reality is starting to dawn on them are thinking.."WTF have I done!"

@ Ghostrider A utopian Brexit outcome sounds nice. I hope you're right and the experts are wrong.

@Windwalker I beg to differ. There's two sides to any negotiation, there was no way the EU would budge on their four freedoms or the legislation any country, whether in the EU or EFTA, have to abide by for single market access. Those are their red lines. They've made that abundantly clear right from the very start, even before the referendum. The UK government has been trying and failing because what they're looking for is unacceptable to the 27 other member states of the EU. Every compromise makes us worse off than if we remained members, we knew this before the referendum, If this wasn't the case there wouldn't be an EU, nobody would want to join, everybody would leave, it's so obvious I feel silly even typing it. No wonder parliament's been struggling with it, it's a lose, lose situation. Vote to leave = worse off = collateral damage. Blaming remainers is a cop out and music to Boris Johnsons ears, any deal which inflicted the least damage would've passed parliament no probs if they had tried it at the start, it would also in all likelihood been an acceptable compromise for most remain voters but the Tories alone took any kind of soft Brexit off the table because they've been pandering to looneys in their own party like Rees-Mogg and the ERG

There was always going to be costs and consequences associated with leaving the EU. The "collateral damage" is the result of voting to leave. Now it's getting near crunch time the ones carrying the can are desperate to deflect blame for the inevitable fallout to others. Will they man up and take responsibility...not a chance.

You can't shoot yourself in the foot and blame the EU for the pain. Take responsibility, you voted for it.Boris is pretending to negotiate, one of the first things he did was get rid of most of the negotiating team, he left a few yes men to sip champagne and sit on their hands in the wine bars of Brussels while he tours the U.K. trying to convince the gullible that when crap/fan day comes it was nothing to do with him, it was the big bad EU that did it. He's a shyster and a charlatan.

Stop worrying everything will be just fine. You could take advice from random people off the internet or you could seek advice from people who know what they're talking about like the Royal Pharmaceutical SocietyThis isn't "Project Fear" these are people who know what they're talking about trying to make sure people don't die from shortages in medicine With the Scottish NHS being in the control of Holyrood, what may or may not happen is far more likely to be 'manufactured' by politicians for political gain than be the result of what the trade may or may not do. I fully expect the bunch holding sway in Holyrood to either turn a blind eye and deaf ear to any issue that could potentailly lead to a shortage just so they can blame the English for the shortage when it occurs, or pull out all the stops to ensure mo shortages occur and then use that as bragging rights of how they've prevented a disaster of English creation. The level of anti-Englishness and the depths the Nats will stoop to to score cheap shots against them make it almost inevitable. The Royal Pharmaceutical Society, The British Medical Journal, the UK's own civil service, the NHS in all parts of the UK and all the other people who know what their on about are saying there's a real risk of medicine shortages in the event of a no deal Brexit, nothing to do with Holyrood. Will Brexit supporters ever take ownership of their own mess? Probably not. They're trying to blame the dog.

^^I hope you get your answers, and double hope there's no problems with your meds, worrying times.

Stop worrying everything will be just fine. You could take advice from random people off the internet or you could seek advice from people who know what they're talking about like the Royal Pharmaceutical SocietyThis isn't "Project Fear" these are people who know what they're talking about trying to make sure people don't die from shortages in medicine

Boris is a charlatan, people are starting to see through the cynically manufactured charade he has as a kind of lovable buffoon. He's a wolf in sheeps clothing, not for trusting, even his own family agree.

But what have the SNP done for Shetland since taking power? Humblest apologies for repeating myself but in my defence you did ask...100's of affordable homes you can see all over Shetland and loads more in the pipeline for those Shetlanders who can't afford extortionate private rents or massive mortgages. Shetlanders can go to University without having to pay for the privilege, they pay 9k a year in England. Built a new high school, Free prescriptions for sick Shetlanders, Free personal care for elderly Shetlanders and then went on to extend it to those that need it regardless of age. Bigger discounts on travel to the mainland, Nearly doubled the free nursery hours for Shetlanders with young families. Mitigated some of the Tory/LibDem welfare cuts like the bedroom tax. This is a shortened version off the top of my head, there's probably more.

I prefer to vote for something, this policy free, voting to stop somebody else negativity is the biggest cop out imaginable. How far the Liberals have fallen, no wonder they only have 4 MSP's in Holyrood if that's all they've got in the locker. What do they stand for nowadays? What's their vision? What's their message? That Tory coalition has stolen their soul.

^^Touché! Good een. Made me smile, even if I disagree with the sentiment.

I read one of the leaflets from the LibDems, basically the main gist of it was "vote for us to stop the SNP". What a sad, negative, uninspiring message. I could feel a sigh gathering in my chest at the whole pointlessness of it. It made me think about and pity our young people, some of them voting for the first time. No matter how full of hope and passion they are this message would suck all that out and leave a dried out husk in its place. I've heard some people debating why the youth of today don't bother voting, well here's "Exhibit A" your honour, the great Liberal vision for Shetland. I thought about using this pamphlet to get my fire started but I honestly don't think this damp squib of a dreary, off putting, spirit crushing thing would light.