The SNP have called for a second referendum on Scottish independence, and many feel this is the direct result of the Prime Minister steering us towards a ‘hard Brexit’: exit from the single market and the customs union.
This seems both right and wrong.
It’s wrong in the sense that one could argue that the real driver of a hard Brexit is the EU’s strategic determination to keep itself intact, post Brexit, and what it has decided best serves that end.
As seemed likely before the June 23rd vote, the EU would figure that to avoid a chaotic renegotiation of its constituent Treaties, it would basically offer the UK a take it or leave it option. Pay for single market membership, or be out of it. No menu of alternative options. The emergency brake on immigration and the other concessions Cameron wrung were no longer to be pursued because there…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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