THE concept of Britishness has becoming increasingly fragile and the prospect of the UK remaining united is “pretty poor”, author says.
“I analysed a series of parliamentary debates around Brexit and around this idea of global Britain, and what I found was that SNP members of the Westminster parliament were really articulating this quite different geopolitical vision,” he said.
“So these articulations of Scottish identity, these geopolitical articulations are a real challenge to this dominant island identity which is mostly a Tory identity - but theparty being a unionist party very much conforms to some of these trappings historically as well.” He added: “Britishnesss is pretty fragile and without the Empire and without Queen Elizabeth II as well – that I think is a bit of a coincidence, but a really profound one, the fact she has passed away in the time period she has."
“They have this public persona almost of the Union is the most important thing, we are a UK party, Britishness is what is really important,” he said.
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