A semi-Brexit, with just England and Wales leaving the EU, is the solution | Kim Lane Scheppele
by Kim Lane Scheppele from World news | The Guardian on (#475MP)
If Scotland and Northern Ireland remained, as voters there wanted, it would open the door to a better deal all round
When all solutions are bad, it's time to reinvent the problem. Is it still possible to honour the initial Brexit referendum without crossing the EU's red lines? Yes - through semi-Brexit.
The UK is divided into four nations, two of which voted remain and two of which voted leave. The British government could honour those decisions and allow Scotland and Northern Ireland to remain in the EU as the successor state to the UK, while permitting England and Wales (if it still wants to) to exit.
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