Chamber
Meeting of the Parliament (Hybrid) 28 October 2020
28 Oct 2020 · S5 · Meeting of the Parliament
Item of business
Portfolio Question Time
United Kingdom Trade (Jobs)
Constitution, Europe and External Affairs
Michelle Ballantyne is labouring under a fallacy that we hear from her colleagues all the time. If it were true that one had to be within a single political relationship in order to trade, the UK would not be leaving the EU. However, the UK has based its entire argument on the fact that that is not the case. What we have is a double standard, and the only thing that drives that double standard is extreme dislike of the people of Scotland having a say about their own future. That is antidemocratic, and will damage Scotland far more than anything that anybody else does. The reality is that the danger to jobs comes from the member’s party’s Brexit. She should hang her head in shame.
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