This week the Conservative Party tweeted Theresa May’s statement: ‘Sturgeon’s plan to leave the UK – Scotland’s biggest market – would mean economic chaos.’
The Prime Minister doesn’t seem to get it, does she? Exactly the same arguments also apply to her plan to leave the EU as well as its Single Market - the UK’s biggest market – which would also mean economic chaos.
Last March Mrs May made similar comments in a keynote speech giving all the reasons why the Union of the United Kingdom should remain intact. But yet again, all her arguments could just as easily and logically apply to keeping the Union of Europe intact.
Mrs May said:
“One of the driving forces behind the Union’s creation was the remorseless logic that greater economic strength and security come from being united. Our wholly integrated domestic market for businesses means no barriers to trade within our borders.”
Yes, the exact same reasons apply to the European Union – reasons that Mrs May extolled before the Referendum, but abandoned after the Referendum in exchange for the trappings of high office.
Mrs May also said about our Union of the United Kingdom:
“The fundamental strengths of our Union, and the benefits it brings to all of its constituent parts, are clear.”
Yes, the strengths of the European Union are also clear – that Union is the world’s largest free trading area.
Mrs May also said:
“We must take this opportunity to bring our United Kingdom closer together. Because the Union which we all care about is not simply a constitutional artefact. It is a union of people, affections and loyalties.”
Indeed, as is the European Union.
The Prime Minister continued:
“Together we form the world’s greatest family of nations. But the real story of our Union is not to be found in Treaties or Acts of Parliament. It is written in our collective achievements, both at home and in the world.”
Actually, the European Union is the world ‘s greatest family of nations. And its collective achievements have been huge, not least of which is the achievement of presiding over the longest period of permanent peace in our continent’s history.
Doesn’t Mrs May realise that all the arguments for keeping the Union of the United Kingdom intact, are the exact same reasons for keeping the European Union intact? Undoing our Union with Europe could directly lead to the undoing of our Union of the United Kingdom.
Of course, Mrs May knows that. In April last year, when she was Home Secretary, she gave one of the most powerful pro-Remain speeches of the entire referendum campaign.
Then, Mrs May advised against Brexit because it could prove ‘fatal’ both to the Union of Europe as well as the Union of the United Kingdom. She said then:
“..if Brexit isn’t fatal to the European Union, we might find that it is fatal to the Union with Scotland. The SNP have already said that in the event that Britain votes to leave but Scotland votes to remain in the EU, they will press for another Scottish independence referendum.
"And the opinion polls show consistently that the Scottish people are more likely to be in favour of EU membership than the people of England and Wales.
“If the people of Scotland are forced to choose between the United Kingdom and the European Union we do not know what the result would be. "But only a little more than eighteen months after the referendum that kept the United Kingdom together, I do not want to see the country I love at risk of dismemberment once more."I do not want the people of Scotland to think that English Eurosceptics put their dislike of Brussels ahead of our bond with Edinburgh and Glasgow."I do not want the European Union to cause the destruction of an older and much more precious Union, the Union between England and Scotland…“We should remain in the EU.”
Do you really want Theresa May as our Prime Minister, when she supports Britain's membership of the EU one month, then changes her mind the next? Are you happy for Tories to be running the country, and ruining our partnership with the European Union and its Single Market, as well as potentially our Union with Scotland?
The General Election is on 8 June.
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
- Two-faced Theresa
- Theresa May is destroying the legacy of past Tory Prime Ministers
- 70% of Mrs May's cabinet wanted Britain to remain in the EU
- Why referendums and Parliament are incompatible
- List of the latest articles by Jon Danzig
To follow my stories, please 'like' my Facebook page: Jon Danzig writes
Join my Facebook campaign to keep Britain in the European Union: Reasons2Remain
__________________________________________________________________
• Join and share the discussion about this article on Facebook:
