It is perhaps no coincidence that the United Kingdom in the space of the next two years is likely to face the consequences of two separate referendums on integration; the first on the union with Scotland in just five days’ time and the second on membership of the European Union promised by 2017.One vote may be imminent and the other unconfirmed, but the approach to each – and the ways in which the arguments intersect and contradict – are enormously revealing about the UK, and how it chooses to see itself.The arguments in favour of continued integration of Scotland with the rest of the UK and of the UK as a whole with the EU fail to make the positive case or to appeal to higher principle. Particularly, the Scottish “No” campaign has failed to show how “B
11 September 2014, The Tablet
The EU potentially makes the UK defunct for Scotland
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