Missing the point on Brexit

I saw an astonishing tweet yesterday about the topic of Brexit and Scottish independence from Wes Streeting, the Remain-supporting Labour MP for Brexit-voting Ilford North, in Greater London.

If leaving the EU is this complicated and painful, I don’t know how easy the SNP imagines leaving the 300 year old union of the United Kingdom will be.

— Wes Streeting MP (@wesstreeting) January 21, 2019

I want to take forward two strands of thought from this original tweet. In the first, I really ought...