Obviously it would be in the Unionists’ interests to actively engage with this kind of thinking. But there is still a hankering after the old days, a refusal to recognise that a basic component of Unionism is gone for ever – supremacy. A second problem for Unionism is the unacknowledged fact that, for all their talk of British heritage, a majority of the British on the ‘UK mainland’ would cheerfully vote them out of the Union if they ever got the opportunity do so by way of referendum.
