Scotland should go ahead with independence aspirations, Analyst says

After nearly four months since the British people voted for departure from the European Union, the country is still facing formidable challenges, one being stiff opposition from Scotland which voted to remain in the EU, and is now insisting to be kept in the single market. First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has even said that she would go as far as to hold a second referendum on independence from Britain. Press TV's latest edition of 'The Debate' program had two panelists shed light on the controversy.

Scott Rickard, a former American intelligence linguist, expressed hope that Sturgeon would go ahead with her independence aspirations, and opined that the idea of forming a monolithic bloc, called the European Union, and trying to solve all sorts of problems from "a privatization perspective" was doomed to failure from the beginning.

“When I look at the EU versus the UK, you have some ships with many holes in them. You have sinking ships of financial fiat-money type economies that deserve to be sinking. The way that they treat the other nations around the world and control the finances to their benefit is absolutely unfair to countries like Greece and others around the world, especially the third world," Rickard said.

On Monday, the British Prime Minister Theresa May held a meeting with the leaders of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland to discuss Brexit plans, but the session failed to appease  Sturgeon.

Rickard further noted that Scotland is enjoying strong economic and historical relations with other countries within the EU, including Germany and Italy, thus asking it to cut all those bonds seems to be an excessive demand.

“England is really part of a global economy that is crashing on a daily basis,” he said. “Hopefully for the sovereignty and for the good of the people, not only in England and Scotland, I hope that it does actually crash and I hope that we do see some real legitimacy around financing, not only in the West but also across other countries around the world.”

The other panelist attending the discussion, investigative journalist Tony Gosling, hailed Theresa May for being loyal to people's choice in the Brexit referendum.

“It's important to say that Theresa May is doing a really good job here in saying that there won't be a parliamentary vote on this. It's because the people have already voted. What they're doing is just ensuring as a government in Downing Street in Westminster that people’s will is going to be actually implemented,” he argued.

He also underscored that the United Kingdom is one country and if the country, as a whole, decides to leave the EU, it should go for it.

“It's not E exit. It’s not England exit. It's the whole of the United Kingdom which is leaving,” Gosling emphasized.

He further asserted that Sturgeon is pursuing another independence referendum before the Brexit because, according to him, she is well aware of the fact that the number of Scots preferring the UK over the EU is increasing.

“[It] worth noting that she's wanting to have another independence referendum from the United Kingdom up in Scotland very very quickly and that is because she wants to do that before Brexit itself happens which will be about two years time. And the reason she wants to do that is she knows that [based on] the YouGov recent poll, that there are ten percent more Scots that prefer the UK to the European Union.”

On June 23, nearly 52 percent of people in Britain voted to end their country’s 42-year membership in the EU.

Despite all the troubles on the path of implementing the outcome of the referendum, Theresa May has promised to begin the process by the end of March 2017, which means that Britain would leave the bloc by spring 2019, before the country’s next general elections.

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