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Exotica

(1,461 posts)
Mon May 21, 2018, 11:36 AM May 2018

Brexit And Devolution: A New UK Settlement Or The Break-Up Of Britain?

https://www.socialeurope.eu/book/brexit-and-devolution-a-new-uk-settlement-or-the-break-up-of-britain

Social Europe and its partner Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung today launch a new series of papers on the impact of Brexit upon key aspects of UK politics and policy. In the first paper on ‘Brexit and Devolution’, SE editor, David Gow, a former The Guardian and The Scotsman correspondent and contributor to the Red Paper on Scotland, analyses the constitutional conflict between Westminster and the devolved administrations in Edinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast. He concludes that the UK faces a stark choice between a new political/constitutional settlement or the break-up of Britain.



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Brexit And Devolution: A New UK Settlement Or The Break-Up Of Britain? (Original Post) Exotica May 2018 OP
Breakup TimeSnowDemos May 2018 #1
It really affects me, as I am a dual US/UK citizen, BUT also live in the EU outside of the UK. Exotica May 2018 #2
Thanks for the link. geardaddy May 2018 #3
 

Exotica

(1,461 posts)
2. It really affects me, as I am a dual US/UK citizen, BUT also live in the EU outside of the UK.
Mon May 21, 2018, 12:20 PM
May 2018

I am now eligible for citizenship in a 3rd country (in the EU), but would have to give up either my UK or USA passport/citizenship to do so. My wife is Dual UK/Swedish so I may just keep my American status and play off her EU status (as same-sex marriage has been recognised in some EU countries since 2001, and now in all that we would live in, or at least civil unions).

TBH, if a nightmare scenario (Trump or another Rethug elected POTUS again in 2020 and the Senate/House go wonky as well) I cannot see living again in the US for long time, if ever, as the SCOTUS will almost certainly end up 7-2 or 8-1 (if Sotomayor has to retire due to her bad diabetes) hard RW.

That will bode ill for so much of our constitutional protections as a hard RW activist SCOTUS will toss stare decisis out the window on a shit tonne of crucial civil rights issues. I haven't lived in the US since I was a very small child, born in Los Angeles area (I am 23 now), other than a year and half in NYC.

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