The myth of the SNP’s Brexit ‘power grab’

Forgive me if I seem out of sorts but my country has been through a lot this past week. We have been subjected to ‘provocation’ and our imperial masters in Westminster intend to ‘exert a kind of colonial authority’ over us. Our parliament has been ‘slighted’ and we are bearing the ‘impact of such condescension on the psyche’. The UK Government has sought to ‘lessen the ability of the people of Scotland to govern their own affairs’ and in doing so its ‘contempt for Scotland was laid bare’. 

The amen corner of the Scottish commentariat is once again standing up and bravely telling it like Nicola Sturgeon says it is. The SNP leader has decreed Scotland the victim of a ‘power grab’ and Westminster the destroyer of the devolution settlement. Her MPs have stormed out of Prime Minister’s Questions and now her MSPs promote the conspiracy theory that Brexit is a plot against the Scottish Parliament.  

Step back from the reason-clobbering group-think of Scottish political life and the absurdity of the situation is near-comic.