| Comment | I'm not going to defend any Tory policies here, but this comparison always sounds extremely unfair to me.
You are saying 'we're an island' so I suppose your idea is that the UK (or at least Great Britain) should have used the NZ approach - but if you just look at the number of densely populated areas, international airports (including the insanely busy ones in London), proximity to other densely inhabited nations, etc. etc., it just becomes clear that NZ is a special case because they are so far away from everything.
If you think Scotland should have done the NZ approach despite the rest of the UK not doing it, well then we are not an island any more, and we also have a busy land border with England (people working / living on different sides of it, lorry traffic coming in to supply our supermarkets). |
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