If Scotland gets back into the EU Ireland will be here with the streamers and the party. ‘Mon!
Today i read some articles that the UK is about to fall apart because most states are very angry about london & want to rejoin the EU.
Is that even possible? Do you think the UN would accept scottland as a country?
why 2031?
I hope not. It’d be a catastrophe.
Sure. They will be welcome. Go Scotland
I hope they will.
And maybe they could ask N Ireland along for the ride?
Before assessing EU candidacy, Scotland needs to outline how it would operate financially if independent. The country already operates at a deficit, and EU candidacy will have fiscal standards that need to be met.
Then there’s the question of the SNP, whose underperformance in almost every area in the last decade provides little encouragement.
I honestly can’t wait for the Scottish Nigel to start blaming Brussels instead of Westminster when they run outta money.
Could they rejoin? Yes. In 2031? No.
Becoming a member usually takes at least a decade, Schotland isn’t even an independent country now.
Instead of building a castle in the air, the independent should ask whether Scotland can achieve independence in the first place. The UK won’t grant Scotland another chance in quite some time, so short of UDI, Scotland has exhausted its realistic options for the next couple of decades at least.
Unless Labour changes its stance, which I haven’t read anything suggesting it will.
Extremely unlikely
Despite the rhetoric for a new referendum constantly by the SNP, the last one was agreed to settle the issue for a generation by both sides, even most Scottish people don’t support opening this can of worms again yet.
We’ve had this before, then Brexit, then Covid. So it would be nice to not have some political shitstorm for a while I think.
Rejoining the EU would be a massive economic boom for Scotland: free trade, think of all the non-EU companies that could put their European HQs in Scotland: an English speaking country (with an accent:-)
everything will be fine if you ignore the fact that you’re leaving a country of 300 years who massively subsidies your way of life and you’re way more economically dependent on than the UK ever was on the EU
You won’t get a decent answer in here, Far too many bad actors spouting talking points.
Anyone that takes a positive stance will be downvoted. We (Scots) are outnumbered 11-1 on this little island. Then you have the opinions of scots themselves (the only opinions that matter really) and that fluctuates between 45%-55% yes/no for both sides. Although this is tied closely with age, it’s possible we can just wait out the no voters.
Various EU leaders have said that Scotland would be welcomed with open arms, including Spanish politicians, but that doesn’t guarantee anything and when we head to the negotiating table I imagine things will be a lot tougher.
I hope Scotland will return to being an independent country, within the EU. I know a lot of Scots that consider themselves more European than they do British. A big part of the previous independence campaign last time was that rejecting independence would stop us being forced to leave the EU. And then the UK government came up with Brexit and fucked us anyway (Scotland voted to stay in the EU, but was outvoted by England).
On a purely cultural level, we are a good fit. However, our financials are so intertwined with England (by design) that nobody really knows what it will look like after independence.
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I doubt we will be back in the EU by 2031, and we need to get independence first to even get to the negotiating table.
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If Scotland gets back into the EU Ireland will be here with the streamers and the party. ‘Mon!
Today i read some articles that the UK is about to fall apart because most states are very angry about london & want to rejoin the EU.
Is that even possible? Do you think the UN would accept scottland as a country?
why 2031?
I hope not. It’d be a catastrophe.
Sure. They will be welcome. Go Scotland
I hope they will.
And maybe they could ask N Ireland along for the ride?
Before assessing EU candidacy, Scotland needs to outline how it would operate financially if independent. The country already operates at a deficit, and EU candidacy will have fiscal standards that need to be met.
Then there’s the question of the SNP, whose underperformance in almost every area in the last decade provides little encouragement.
I honestly can’t wait for the Scottish Nigel to start blaming Brussels instead of Westminster when they run outta money.
Could they rejoin? Yes. In 2031? No.
Becoming a member usually takes at least a decade, Schotland isn’t even an independent country now.
Instead of building a castle in the air, the independent should ask whether Scotland can achieve independence in the first place. The UK won’t grant Scotland another chance in quite some time, so short of UDI, Scotland has exhausted its realistic options for the next couple of decades at least.
Unless Labour changes its stance, which I haven’t read anything suggesting it will.
Extremely unlikely
Despite the rhetoric for a new referendum constantly by the SNP, the last one was agreed to settle the issue for a generation by both sides, even most Scottish people don’t support opening this can of worms again yet.
We’ve had this before, then Brexit, then Covid. So it would be nice to not have some political shitstorm for a while I think.
Rejoining the EU would be a massive economic boom for Scotland: free trade, think of all the non-EU companies that could put their European HQs in Scotland: an English speaking country (with an accent:-)
everything will be fine if you ignore the fact that you’re leaving a country of 300 years who massively subsidies your way of life and you’re way more economically dependent on than the UK ever was on the EU
You won’t get a decent answer in here, Far too many bad actors spouting talking points.
Anyone that takes a positive stance will be downvoted. We (Scots) are outnumbered 11-1 on this little island. Then you have the opinions of scots themselves (the only opinions that matter really) and that fluctuates between 45%-55% yes/no for both sides. Although this is tied closely with age, it’s possible we can just wait out the no voters.
Various EU leaders have said that Scotland would be welcomed with open arms, including Spanish politicians, but that doesn’t guarantee anything and when we head to the negotiating table I imagine things will be a lot tougher.
I hope Scotland will return to being an independent country, within the EU. I know a lot of Scots that consider themselves more European than they do British. A big part of the previous independence campaign last time was that rejecting independence would stop us being forced to leave the EU. And then the UK government came up with Brexit and fucked us anyway (Scotland voted to stay in the EU, but was outvoted by England).
On a purely cultural level, we are a good fit. However, our financials are so intertwined with England (by design) that nobody really knows what it will look like after independence.
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I doubt we will be back in the EU by 2031, and we need to get independence first to even get to the negotiating table.