Watching last night I couldn’t believe the number of EU flags being waved and blue, gold star bangled berets being worn. Very encouraging 
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It might (though unlikely) draw (some) attention to the historical contribution of European composers, but beyond that I doubt anything much will happen in my lifetime…
To me the most hilarious thing is that the anti-EU foamers have drawn even more attention to this by their gammony comments.
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why was Sandy wearing Pyjamas.
That is because these stupid bigots probably do not realise how much more difficult it is for touring musicians in the EU since Brexit.
How ridiculous to criticise music lovers who understand the problem and turn it into a purely political argument.
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This was an outrage,the poor Daily Mail and Express readers must be furious.
I saw that article, meant to comment on one of the embedded tweets -
“Rule Britannia represents freedom, sovereignty, and self-determination, all absent in the European Union.”
So good to know the Scottish right to self determination is respected.
Some representations of Rule Britannia seem to present as pure hypocrisy.
Surely the question was asked and answered not so long ago.
As was the EU one.
My point was the Scottish nation doesn’t have the right to hold a referendum so cannot ‘self-determine’, including determining its relationship with the EU.
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I suspect we couldn’t cope with a monthly referendum as the SNP try to get the answer they want, in the absence of any majority for it in the country. Personally I’d much prefer they spent some time focusing on the state of the nation rather than the status.
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Ireland found a solution to that problem in 1916 
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I offer a reluctant like - I’m afraid you make a good point, if only it were not so…
I guess it will be the same with any EU referendum - “you’ve had your self-determination, now get on with it. What do you mean you were lied to - of course you were, that was the point!”
The problem I have is that the nationalists are pulling the same arguments as the Brexshits, that everything is England’s fault and, after independence, it will be a land of milk and honey.
I’d have more sympathy to a genuine, honest debate but that’s not going to happen as it’s all too difficult and, like Johnson, they don’t really have the answers to the challenges that Scotland faces.
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True, there would be some serious challenges. Ireland was a religious, political and economic basket case from independence until EEC membership started to rehabilitate it. The irony is that if the UK hadn’t joined the EEC, given that the UK was by far Ireland’s biggest trading partner then, Ireland probably couldn’t have either.
I think the biggest challenge would be for the EU to decide that Scotland had more in common with the post- Soviet Baltic States than with Catalunya.
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