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Related: About this forumThe clock is now ticking for the end of the union ...

I want his assessment to be wrong, but I really don't think it is..
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The clock is now ticking for the end of the union ... (Original Post)
Soph0571
Jul 2019
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The King of Prussia
(751 posts)1. This, of course, is the "Nick" Clegg who:
1. Lied to gain political office.
2. Eulogised the serial paedophile Smith.
3. Was chairman of the cabinet committee with responsibility for immigration at the time the racist "hostile environment" policy was conceived and enacted.
mwooldri
(10,801 posts)3. And took the Lib Dems into a disastrous coalition.
Nearly killed the Lib Dems.
However his words are correct here. If Brexit as a no-deal does go ahead, Scotland will secede from the Union, Northern Ireland will join the rest of Ireland, and Plaid Cymru's campaign for Welsh Independence will grow.
I do find it strange that the one thing holding the UK together is the EU, but there you have it....
bronxiteforever
(11,212 posts)2. Kick and recommend.
