{"id":9437,"date":"2016-06-24T10:28:18","date_gmt":"2016-06-24T17:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/?p=9437"},"modified":"2016-06-24T10:45:27","modified_gmt":"2016-06-24T17:45:27","slug":"on-the-united-kingdom-brexit-scexit-and-irexit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/24\/on-the-united-kingdom-brexit-scexit-and-irexit\/","title":{"rendered":"on the (dis)united kingdom: brexit, scexit, and irexit"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was up all yesterday and last night watching votes come in on Brexit, and I’m as surprised as the next supervillain, or, for that matter, the next Briton who has been googling exactly what is the EU, anyway?<\/a> after the vote.<\/p>\n

I posted a bunch on my old LJ\/DW account pair, which you can read here if you want<\/a>, but that’s just tracking financial reaction. I’m really thinking about just the UK, at the moment, and what happens politically now. In that, I’m assuming in this that the EU manages to stay together without the UK, which will certainly be the number one project of everyone over there<\/em> for the next five years.<\/p>\n

Scotland will treat this as an abrogation of promises made in 2014 to entice it to stay in the UK. A big one of those was continued and certain EU membership.<\/p>\n

Scotland, of course, voted overwhelmingly – and across all of the country – to stay. Northern Ireland voted soundly to stay as well, but less overwhelmingly, and doesn’t have a recent close referendum on leaving. Both the SNP and Sinn F\u00e9in have called for new referenda on separation, and everyone’s treating the Scottish call more seriously – including, I note, the Scots.<\/p>\n

But I’m not sure that’s the right analysis. I think it’ll come down to borders.<\/p>\n

The biggest question in both cases comes down to free movement. Within the EU, you have free movement; border controls are not really a big issue for Europeans.<\/p>\n

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But outside the UK, there are, of course, plenty of border controls. If those controls reappear<\/eM>, I think Northern Ireland tells the UK to fuck off. The smart thing for Sinn F\u00e9in might be to wait ’till those border controls start showing up.<\/p>\n


It won’t be like this, because that’s Africa and the racism is fierce.
But it’ll be controls of some sort, and this is the image to use.<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n

And if those border controls reappearing are part of<\/em> Scottish independence, I can’t but wonder if that means the Scots will stay<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Scotland and England have had free borders for a very, very long time. In the last vote, that was brought up, but you’d’ve had EU co-membership, making the issue moot. In a new<\/em> vote… not so much.<\/p>\n

So I think they might well have it backwards. Irish reunification, yes; Scottish independence, no.<\/p>\n

And, of course, across all of it, ample chances in destabilisation. Supervillains and day-traders, be on alert, opportunity goddamn knocks<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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