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Originally Posted by Chris
You’re trying to have your cake and eat it.
The scientific advice is not the British establishment trying to keep the economy moving; it is a set of predictions of different scenarios based on best available evidence. The British establishment is in government. Its motives are rightly there to be scrutinised and criticised.
The SNP has access to the scientific advice. It also comes out in hives when forced to deal with the British establishment. If its actions are essentially similar to those in Ingerlund that casts doubt on your suspicion that decisions down south are being driven by establishment figures looking after their share portfolios. The SNP has no reason to mirror decisions that reflect the preferences of the establishment in Westminster.
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I’m not trying to have my cake and eat it. Yes, some things the devolved administrations do varies and others it has aligned with UK advice (e.g. changing of the quarantine/self isolation periods). You are trying to justify the English position simply by narrowing the scope to whether Scotland agrees. It’s a big wide world out there. I don’t consider Scotland particularly exceptional either.
As I say, I’d be genuinely interested to see if other independent countries e.g. the United States go down this route. If they do we may be onto something.