[quote SoMuchForSummerLove]@ResilienceWanker but what if what the nations want differs significantly? DC said that BJ has never wanted, and still doesn't want, a border control policy. I think it's pretty obviously true by the small, difficult to keep track of, late policies he's implemented.
But his decision in terms of borders made the rest of the UK vulnerable. Certainly NS didn't agree, but what choice was there? Devolution is a mess, and this has shown it quite starkly. We have a terribly ineffective PM, as is very clear, and yet if any other nation wants to make better different policy choices, it's always politicised as a power struggle.
It does nobody any favours.[/quote]
Well, that's when the nations talk and agree a compromise she says, in her unrealistic naive version of utopia... . Maybe BJ could accept some restrictions to minimise importing different variants and maybe NS could recognise that we can't cut ourselves off from the rest of the world indefinitely and need to allow some travel. Neither is intrinsically a bad decision, and no one, not even BJ, is setting out to kill anyone through reckless abandon. It's not fair to say NS obviously had the right approach and BJ the wrong one. If we had done a New Zealand, and there hadn't been a vaccine, where would we be now?! (apart from starving, living on a diet of turnips and all the whisky and salmon we couldn't export).
I think it's perfectly fair to have different policies on most things, but on this, which so obviously ties Scotland to the rest of the UK (whether you think that's good (vaccines and furlough) or bad (travel and Matt Hancock)), I think it would have been sensible to be more collaborative. There's enough to nitpick at with other things for all your constitutional nitpicking desires...