Nicola Sturgeon’s response to Brexit has utterly failed

What’s Nicola Sturgeon playing at on Brexit? Quick answer: politics. Longer answer: politics. 

The SNP leader has rejected a deal to resolve the impasse between Westminster and Holyrood over the repatriation of powers from Brussels. She accuses the Tories of a ‘power grab’ because some areas of responsibility will initially go to the UK rather than Scottish parliament and threatens to deny consent to the government’s Brexit Bill. If she does so – and her SNP holds a majority of seats at Holyrood with unofficial junior coalition partners, the Greens – it will fix a procedural wheel clamp on Brexit. At which point, the only way the Bill could go ahead is if Westminster explicitly overruled the Scottish Parliament. 

You see where I’m going with this? Nicola Sturgeon started the Brexit process with 56 MPs, a majority of Scots behind her and the moral high ground in seeking to keep the UK in the single market and customs union, neither of which the British people had voted to leave, what with them not being on the ballot paper (and which Scots definitely hadn’t voted to leave, with Remain taking 62 per cent of the vote).