There have been strange goings on in Scotland. A few weeks ago, the Supreme Court clarified that the Scottish parliament does not have the power to unilaterally call a second independence referendum. The ruling was never going to have gone down well with the SNP, but has the Supreme Court’s slap down sent the nationalist movement doolally?
Take the strange case of Michael Russell’s comparison of the current UK government to the British Raj in the days of the Empire. On Sunday, the president of the SNP and former Scottish government minister defended an article he had written in the pro-independence newspaper The National which appeared to draw this parallel.
Is such a comparison appropriate, mused the host of BBC Radio Scotland’s The Sunday Show, in an interview with Russell.
To place Scotland’s current situation in any form of colonial context is obviously crass
‘The comparison I was making was to say that there are elements of post-colonial policy that are operating at the present moment,’ responded Russell.
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