There is a massive amount of work needed to educate your average Scottish separatist as to what independence would actually mean. I had a conversation with a cybernat the other day who thought that his state pension would still come via the U.K. Treasury come independence. Bless him he thought he had his own little pot of money that was his alone.
Martin Kettle in the Guardian today has a well balanced summary article on the situation and its possible implications which is good reading. One line I'd take from in in particular which gives a lie to Sturgeon's increasingly frantic panic. "From the start, Salmond alleged abuse of process against Sturgeon’s team. He won a separate court case on this issue in 2019."
Perhaps you need to see what the ROI was like before Joining the EU, An independent Scotland won't be able to join the EU straight away, Minimum 10 yrs they say, With no UK money and outside the EU Scotland will not be a place you'd want to live, It won't be a wasteland but it will be very poor.
No, Just a fact, If Scotland decided to leave, They can't just pull up to Brussels and join the EU the next day, That was made clear by the EU during indyref 1. Scotland will find it difficult on their own there is no doubt and its something the SNP seem to want to gloss over.
Scotland is a mid-ranking performing OECD economy in its own right, plenty of whisky and salmon, and still some oil and gas to export. There’ll be some bumps in the road, but they are a canny, industrious and patriotic bunch - they’d be afforded a warm welcome on returning to the European family, unlike some. Probably fast tracked membership as the country’s MO is aligned already with the EU single market. They’ll be fine, DB, you shouldn’t fret about them.
All ifs and buts about being fast tracked. If that happens then some other nations who want to join will cry foul and say "What about us?" They do well because they're in the UK, I just don't think they'll find life easy outside of the UK and waiting to join the EU.
If the SNP and it’s supporters were offering up the idea of independence as the antidote to being dependent on England then you would have a point. They aren’t.
