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Originally Posted by Greg!
Um the whole point is that Scotland would stay in the EU if it was independent
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It's more important for Scotland to stay in the UK than the EU because Scotland sells much more to the rest of the UK than it does to the EU.
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Exports to rest of UK are worth £48.5 billion compared with £11.6 billion to EU while 250,000 jobs are linked to the single market compared with one million linked to the UK market, he said.
Mr Brown added that total of 1,000 companies from Europe are based in Scotland, compared with 3,000 from rest of UK, and pointed out the leaving the UK for the EU could mean changing currencies.
While 250,000 Scottish jobs are linked to the EU single market, he said that at least a million are connect to trade with England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016...r-more-than-e/
Also countries can't just join the European Union on a whim. There's a number of criteria that have to be met. As I understand it Scotland doesn't meet those criteria currently, especially the deficit-to-GDP ratio being way to high.