#uk why

> Scheduled to spend a few hours in Manchester UK on my way to Berlin

> Required to apply for a visa to enter the UK

> Goes to site. Application is £20

> Okay that's dumb but it's valid for 2 years, I'll find a reason to go back

> "You need our app to apply"

> ? That's annoying but okay. Goes to Store

> "Your Android version is incompatible with the app"

Some time ago someone here insisted with me that the UK is not a 2 party system because the SNP or Sinn Féin exist. Too bad they forgot that all important decision including Brexit, were taken in Westminster, and those 2 parties, despite having the majority in their respective regional parliaments, have de facto ZERO power in Westminster, were they have but a handful of representatives.

Now the highest court of Britain has rejected the possibility for Scotland of having an independence referendum, stating that only Westminster may decide.

Anyone who keeps insisting that the UK works like the other democracies with multi-party system in Europe is imho in the best of scenarios naive or ignorant. UK is theoretically a voluntary union but now refuses to give one of his members a fair treatment, treating local parliaments as if they didn´t existed. The same issue will happen with the same result if Sinn Féin tries to call a vote for the independence of Northern Ireland and the re-unification of Ireland.

Scotland never wanted to be outside of the EU, that´s why they voted against independence in 2014. I´ll report a comment from YouTube that perfectly explains the situation: “It's important to always recall what happened in 2014 and 2016 whenever Scottish independence comes up. During the 2014 referendum Cameron (not some MP but the PM himself) explicitly stated that Scotland could only be part of the EU as member of the UK and went as far as blackmailing Scotland with the threat of blocking their entry into the EU, then 2 years later Scotland's overwhelming vote to stay in the EU was ignored, and another 4 years later Scotland was dragged out of the EU by England against its will. Now it's 8 years later and Scotland is being told to shut up and accept their role as a subject to English hegemony in the UK.”

Britain will pay dearly these political mistakes and its despotic attitude, but they will never be able to admit that they are in the wrong, sadly.