After Brexit, Scotland ponders unhappy options

Cambuslang, Scotland

IT WAS gloomy inside the Ritz Bar, an establishment that doesn't quite live up to its name, in the Scottish Rust Belt. Not just because it was so dark, but because the men drinking pints and chewing over the world's problems were not finding easy answers.

The ones who voted last month, along with the rest of Scotland, for Britain to remain in the European Union were unhappy. And so were most of those who voted with the majority of Britain to leave the EU, given the turmoil that has unfolded. "We can make a point for staying, and we can make a point for leaving," said Patrick Martin, whose family has run this bar for 60 years.

Cambuslang, a town outside Glasgow, has seen better days. There used to be a Hoover vacuum cleaner factory here, a major employer, but it closed in 2003. The Ravenscraig steel mill in near…