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A FORMER Scottish Conservative communications chief has said the UK Government’s strategy of continually refusing a second referendum will ultimately lead to independence. Andy Maciver, now a political commentator and director of the public relations firm Message Matters, was responding to advice given by George Osborne to Boris Johnson on what to do regarding growing support for Scottish independence. The former Chancellor wrote in a column in the Evening Standard that arguments made for the Union ahead of the 2014 referendum, such as the pooling and sharing of resources, could not longer be made in post-Brexit Britain as they had been undermined by the UK’s decision to leave the EU.
On Sunday, January 3 2020, a letter was published in the Powys County Times labelling Welsh Independence as a “Step too far”, which had mixed reviews. In this letter, written by Bruce Lawson of Montgomery, the author highlighted the need for renewed international relationships in a post-Brexit Britain. It cannot be disputed that good relations in the international field is imperative for the survival of Welsh trade, but neither can the rapid increase in support of dissolving the asymmetric union, in all four nations of this “United” Kingdom. In this response, it is my intention to respectively debunk some of the myths brought up in the letter itself and in some of the reviews and reactions.