[Greg!]

Originally Posted by Cherie

You can't be part of the EU and pick and choose who you trade with, it's quite complex if you leave the UK you will have to reapply to join the EU and that could take years so you would neither have the single market or a trade deal with the UK to begin with, Spain has already said they would block Scotland as an Indy country joining, it would be even more of a mess than Brexit if that's possible

Spain has never said they would block Scotland. Their PM said the Scottish situation is very different from Catalonia and a senior member of the ruling Spanish party said Scotland wouldn't be blocked. The head negotiator for Brexit in the EU parliament said that Scotland would be fast-tracked as they already meet most of the criteria for joining.