Theresa May has accused Nicola Sturgeon of "playing politics with Brexit". And indeed she has. We all played politics with Brexit last June, when over 30 million of us voted to remain or leave the EU. Now the hard Brexiteers are playing politics with Brexit, as are the softies, and the Remaoaners.
Brexit is politics. Asking someone to "leave the politics out of Brexit" is like asking people to leave the balls out of tennis, or the violence out of boxing. I remember the Apartheid South African government bleating that politics should be kept out of sport, after they'd put it in the first place. Politics is part of every human activity you care to name. When I was an active member of Friends of the Earth back in the 70s we used to say: "existence on planet Earth is a political act".
You can't keep the politics out of anything, and the idea you should keep it out of something like Brexit is one of the dumbest oxymorons I've ever heard. I'm glad the SNP is making it awkward for the Brexiteers. I don't want Scotland to leave the UK, though I really couldn't blame them now if they did, and immediately applied to join the EU. If they've got any sense they'll ask to join the euro zone as well, as I suspect they'll have to if they want their application to succeed. Good luck Scotland the Brave!
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