13-09-14, 01:54 PM
Just to touch on the whole "EU" thing:
Lew, you have it bang on. Scotland (as a nation) is NOT part of the EU. Scotland is part of the UK, and it is the UK which holds a membership. I've heard the argument about Catalonia using our automatic membership as a precedent for themselves as they are trying for their own independance. It is different though, Scotland is and always has been it's own country, Catalonia is a region OF a country and hence no pre edence is set.
Let's take a practical approach to this problem. Let's say Scotland votes yes, and becomes it's own independent nation. Let's say we apply to join the EU through either article 48 or article 49 and we get refused to join.
This means that overnight - EVERY Scot who is working abroad in another EU country, and every EU member who is working here is Scotland WILL become an illegal immigrant overnight as the EU rules which allow them to migrate through the Euro zone will cease to be in effect.
This is no small minority, we are talking circa 400,000 people from what I have read. I think you will agree that even a small percentage of that would be too much work for any one police force to bear, both here and overseas. It is for this reason I think common sense will prevail and we will be granted entry.
Lew, you have it bang on. Scotland (as a nation) is NOT part of the EU. Scotland is part of the UK, and it is the UK which holds a membership. I've heard the argument about Catalonia using our automatic membership as a precedent for themselves as they are trying for their own independance. It is different though, Scotland is and always has been it's own country, Catalonia is a region OF a country and hence no pre edence is set.
Let's take a practical approach to this problem. Let's say Scotland votes yes, and becomes it's own independent nation. Let's say we apply to join the EU through either article 48 or article 49 and we get refused to join.
This means that overnight - EVERY Scot who is working abroad in another EU country, and every EU member who is working here is Scotland WILL become an illegal immigrant overnight as the EU rules which allow them to migrate through the Euro zone will cease to be in effect.
This is no small minority, we are talking circa 400,000 people from what I have read. I think you will agree that even a small percentage of that would be too much work for any one police force to bear, both here and overseas. It is for this reason I think common sense will prevail and we will be granted entry.