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Looking at one of the last of the expected shameless anti-Scotland comments (why do they bother????) at this really unimpressive Tory party conference and not disappointed to hear our Sec of State for Scotland, Alister Jack, a man who has some kinda obsession re the Scotland-England border issue, utters his latest ignorant claim that the border is "little more than a sign" lol I think the guy needs to find a dark room and invite a Scottish historian to give him lessons on the History of Scotland considering that Scotland is the country that he bogusly represents!! Also if Mr Jack does not believe Scotland exists, does this mean that he is drawing a generous salary under false pretences?
The border issue has been debated on here before with some good points made re resolving some of the issues, post indy. IMO its importance gained in significance as the Covid pandemic gradually hit Scotland.
Cross-border travel was discouraged on the advice of public health experts to slow the spread of the virus. And many people would've liked the border to have been strengthened further, following the example of Canadian provinces and Australian states as well as independent nation states such as Norway, Denmark and Finland which imposed border restrictions with Sweden, an indy nation which had taken a less cautious approach to the pandemic.
Compared to it's three neighbours, Sweden has experienced a much higher fatality rate due to coronavirus. So you see, at a public health level, borders in the Nordics have saved lives. There are people in Norway, Finland and Denmark, alive today who would've been dead had Sweden's Covid infection rate been allowed to spill over the borders to its neighbours.
By the same token, Canadian provinces and Australian states have not shied away from closing "internal" borders to isolate a province or state experiencing a surge in Covid infections - THERE ARE LESSONS THERE FOR SCOTLAND TO HEED!