Scottish parties unite against ‘untenable’ Brexit deal
Major political parties in Scotland have formed a united front to show their opposition to what British Prime Minister Theresa May has negotiated as a European Union divorce agreement.
The group of four political parties is set to launch a single motion against May’s Brexit deal in the Scottish devolved parliament, known as Holyrood, to show that people in the British province are mostly opposed to the agreement and its impacts on the region regardless of their position on independence from London.
The pro-independence Scottish National Party, the Scottish Greens, the anti-independence Labour and Liberal Democrats will back the motion, which does not have any direct tangible bearing on the Brexit process. Only the Scottish Conservatives have refrained from backing the move which comes a day after a visit by May to areas of Scotland to drum up support for her Brexit deal.
The parties said in a joint statement that the motion was a bid to declare the ire felt in much of Scotland, a region which unlike the rest of the UK voted to remain in the EU in a 2016 referendum, about the Brexit deal. The statement said May’s deal was negotiated without taking into account the views of the Scots.
“The day after the Prime Minister’s stage-managed visit to Scotland, during which she failed to engage with any politicians or individuals who oppose her proposals, this unique and positive cooperation between four of the five parties at Holyrood indicates Scotland’s strength of feeling on Brexit and the Prime Minister’s untenable position,” read the statement.
May has launched a public campaign to sell her Brexit deal before the British parliament is going to vote on the agreement on December 11. She has warned that if the deal is rejected Britain will be forced to leave the EU on March 29, 2019 without a deal, a scenario which the government and its supporters say would have huge negative impacts on regions like Scotland.
Scotland accounts for 8 percent of Britain’s economy as a whole. The region voted by 55-45 to stay as part of the United Kingdom in a 2014 independence referendum.
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