BRITAIN'S PRIME MINISTER TO SCOTLAND - WE ARE LEAVING THE EU, BUT YOU MUST REMAIN WITH THE UK! PART 1.

BRITAIN'S PRIME MINISTER WANTS OUT OF THE EU BUT IS INSISTING THAT SCOTLAND REMAINS PART OF THE UK. IRONIC OR ILLOGICAL?

At first glance, it does appear that, as far as Britain and Scotland is concerned, there is 'one law for the United Kingdom', and a different one for Scotland. 

The United Kingdom, as a whole, voted, by a small majority, to leave the European Union. 

Although, in the case of the Scottish electorate, they voted, by a large majority - 62 per cent - to remain in the European Union.

The British government has and continues to make a great deal about using the leave the EU vote to justify its reckless action in cutting its bonds with the European Union, arguing that "it is the will of the British people." 

However, there is a staunch refusal to apply the same principle to the people of Scotland, where 62 per cent of the people have expressed their 'democratic' wish to remain a part of the European Union. 

Although the Scottish people have expressed 'a stronger will to remain', than the British people as a whole have expressed in wanting to leave. Greater weight is being given to those who want to leave, than to those who want to remain.

Why? Why are the Scots and their votes being devalued and given less weight that the people of England and Wales? 

Why must the Scots make do with 'less democracy' than the people of England?

Why must they abide by what the majority of the composite countries or nations comprising the United Kingdom want, when the United Kingdom is refusing to accept what the collective members of the European Union want?

In the theoretical logic of 'democracy', the concept of 'the will of the people', might have some semantical validity, but, in the practicalities of real life, it, arguably, has little if any legitimacy. 

If 52 per cent of the people voted for one thing and the other 48 per cent of the people voted for another. Then, by no stretch of the imagination can anybody, logically, declare the 52 percent 'the winner', and then move on to sanctify that outcome by declaring it to be 'the will of the people.' 

You can only do so by de-legitimising the aspirations and rights of the 48 per cent. By telling them that they have 'lost' and that that they must now assume the position and aspirations of the 52 per cent. 

Effectively, that they should now trod on their principles and their aspirations to achieve their goals. That they should wait until the next time, when 'they might win.' 

This kind of 'democratic' decision making in no more than the 'democracy of expediency and convenience.' The 'dictatorship of the majority'; however slim that majority happens to be.

To be continued.