THIS week's Community Column is written by Argyll and Bute's Westminster MP, the SNP's Brendan O'Hara.

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The past few weeks have been little short of remarkable.

We have seen Trump walk hand-in-hand with Teresa May hours before executing a brutal blow to travellers from seven predominantly Muslim countries to a complete U-turn on his executive order from the American judiciary.

We’ve seen the UK Government hauled into Parliament on the orders of the Supreme Court to seek parliamentary authority to trigger Article 50, and we saw this culminate in a further brutal blow to UK democracy when this bill passed, without a single amendment, without a single safeguard to protect Scotland’s interests in Brexit negotiations.

I’ll stick to this theme because Scotland has a very different economy to our southern friends and neighbours - a more rural and in places seasonal economy, reliant on low-skilled migrant workers, reliant on the protections afforded by free movement, the single market and essential social investments which were not forthcoming from the UK government.

But as if the last few weeks were not bad enough, only days ago, a leaked UK Government document presented a ‘priority list’ for key industries in Brexit negotiations.

So, high priorities are pharmaceuticals, carmaking, textiles, clothing, aerospace and air transport.

Medium priority? Fisheries, chemicals, electronics and furniture.

Low-priority? Oil and gas, environmental services, water, medical, steel and construction.

I’m seeing scant priority for Scotland’s interests. Are we even relevant?

Scotland did not ask for this or vote for this, and our attempts to mitigate the worst effects of this have been overruled. You have to ask: is this what we want for Scotland?

But at least we have options which 48 per cent of UK currently don’t – having no effective political opposition and the prospect of this continuing into the 2030s, at which point, the Scottish economy could be £11bn worse off with potentially 80,000 job losses.

Is this the kind of country we want to be?