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Originally Posted by Greg!
Scotland is already in the EU though so it wouldn't have to go through the whole rejoining process. Also An independent Scotland is completely different from Catalonia etc because it would come after a legitimate vote approved by the UK gov
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Scotland isn't already in the EU .... the UK union is not the same as Scotland on its own. It has a completely different economy and would need to pass the economic tests, take on the Euro as a currency and accept all the membership conditions of a new country joining. To say otherwise is just wrong.
Spain has already indicated that it would reject an independent Scotland's attempt to join, so its not a piece of info dragged from thin air.
If the people of Scotland want independence that's fine, I'm a Scot although I don't live there, but if they do, they should do it with eyes wide open knowing all the consequences, not on some petty point of ill considered principle.