![]() They didn’t vote for our businesses to face tariffs or for holiday-makers to need visas. ![]() They didn’t vote to lower their own living standards or to sacrifice jobs and investment. They didn’t vote to throw economic rationality out of the window. ![]() They may have voted to take back control.īut I can’t imagine many of them voted to hand control to the unholy trinity of Boris Johnson, David Davis and Liam Fox. But I suspect that many of those who voted to Leave, look now at the actions and rhetoric of the Tories and think ‘that’s not what I voted for’. They did so for a range of legitimate reasons and as first minister, I have a duty to listen to, to understand and to respond to these reasons. "Of course, I know that one million of our fellow citizens voted to Leave. Sturgeon said that even though 1m Scots voted for Brexit, they did not vote for the hard Brexit now on offer from the Tories. She accused the Conservatives of embracing Ukip-style xenophobia and said their views had “no place in a civilised society”. The prime minister may have a mandate to take England and Wales out of the EU but she has no mandate whatsoever to remove any part of the UK from the single market. She made remaining in the single market Scotland’s key priority. ![]() In some respects, this sounded more like a negotiating gambit than a statement of intent. If that’s the insecure, unstable prospect we face as part of the UK, then no one will have the right to deny Scotland the chance to choose a better future.She said the Scottish government would publish an independence referendum bill next week. Korea Todayĭespite efforts at diplomacy under South Korea’s current president, Moon Jae-in, the stark differences between the two Koreas were on full display in the run-up to the 2018 Winter Olympic Games. Even as South Koreans began welcoming athletes from around the world to the Winter Games, Kim Jong Un’s regime in the North put on a military parade in Pyongyang’s historic Kim Il Sung square.Īs CNN reported, four of the country’s missiles, the Hwasong-15, were on display in the parade as Kim watched from a balcony, then spoke about the evils of imperialism.If you can’t - or won’t - allow us to protect our interests within the UK, then Scotland will have the right to decide, afresh, if it wants to take a different path.Ī hard Brexit will change the UK fundamentally.Ī UK out of the single market - isolated, inward looking, haemorrhaging jobs, investment and opportunities - will not be the same country that Scotland voted to stay part of in 2014. ![]() The North’s dedicated efforts to develop a nuclear program have also greatly heightened tensions with South Korea and its allies, particularly the United States. Meanwhile, North Korea remained an isolated “hermit kingdom”-particularly after the collapse of the Soviet bloc in the early 1990s-and economically underdeveloped, as well as a virtual police state ruled by a single family for three generations. military presence), South Korea developed a robust economy, and in recent decades has made steps toward becoming a fully democratic nation. With continuing strong ties to the West (and an ongoing U.S. (Credit: Kurita KAKU/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images) Hermit Kingdom The DMZ line at the demilitarized zone between South and North Korea, 1990. ![]()
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