The UK Supreme Court ruled last week that another Scottish independence referendum would not be constitutional without the agreement of the UK government. Nicola Sturgeon’s ruling Scottish National Party has since been in a predictable state of public indignation, searching for an emotive argument to depict the judgement as an outrageous attack on Scottish democracy.

Instead, leading Scottish nationalists have resorted to the wildest argument in their battered arsenal – that Scotland is somehow a colony, oppressed for centuries by a British state, in need of liberation. It seems that the more desperate the Scot Nats become about their prospects of holding (never mind winning) ‘Indyref2’, the shriller their efforts become to galvanise their base by playing the victim card, depicting poor little Scotland as being bullied by big fat Westminster.

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