Scexit’s not Brexit

In my last post, I was inspired to write about the (often voiced) claim that Brexit shows us how messy the process of Scotland becoming independent would be.

I argued in that post that such a proposition sweeps under the carpet the racism and incompetence that characterised the Leave campaign – an oversight (intentional or not) that is malicious and sinister or just deeply ignorant and insensitive.

In this post, I want to deal more directly with the differences between the move for the UK to...