Iain Macwhirter: Plan that ignores the B-word is surely doomed to fail

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : It was breathtaking to hear Ms Sturgeon repeatedly chastise Mr Johnson for lacking "basic honesty" about the consequences of Brexit being a hard border in the Irish Sea, while she was refusing to come clean about the consequences of Indyref2 being a hard border at Carlisle.
51% : It is true, as yesterday's SNP document says, that many small countries do well in the European Union, though by no means are they all as prosperous as Scotland.
51% : But when countries like Finland joined the European Union they were not members of a pre-existing economic and currency union, the UK, which accounted for the vast majority of their commerce.
50% : It doesn't believe in free trade - except between member states.
48% : The EU is a protectionist bloc that seeks to protect European producers from foreign competition by imposing tariffs and bureaucratic non-tariff barriers on goods entering the single market area.

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