Help we are being oppressed by the Scottish and Irish and need independence.
The Royals have deep ties to Scotland going back to Victoria they are committed too and I could see Betty wishing she still had access to a Headsman with these people.
I wouldn’t oppose such a move on the part of Scotland. But what should we call it? Scotlexit? Scexit?
I think that if the Scottish had an out (i.e., the EU agreed to let them leave the UK and remain a part of the EU), the likelihood of this happening would be extremely high - especially after the past two years of rubbish.
Unfortunately for the Scots, there isn’t really any legal way to do this - and there are several countries who would oppose fast-tracking Scottish entry into the EU due to the precedents that would set for other European “independence” movements.
I feel more or less the same about the Basque region of Spain. But I’m not a Spaniard.
And I have to admit that if US states started shuffling around (e.g. Northern California/Oregon/Washington State) I would start to feel squeamish.
Screturn? To the EU, that is. Or Scremain.
I dunno, I feel like justices Lincoln and Grant more or less settled this legal question. Though I wonder if a modern government would fight to prevent succession? It’s a different era.
They got the go-ahead from Thomas Jefferson at the very least.
Thomas Jefferson said he viewed Fort Astoria “as the germ of a great, free, and independent empire on that side of our continent”.[12]
The Scots sort of blew their chance in 2014… Even though the remain argument built on what would become a false premise.
Anyways I believe that Catalonia is probably even more hyped on independence from Spain than the Basque part of Spain these days.
If Scotland became independent through whatever legal means it has available and the blessing of the legal British government, and not in some sort of unilateral move, then sure, it could join the EU.
Any other way, and you’re going to have EU countries vetoing it, since there’s no shortage of independence / separatist movements in the EU countries, some more serious than others, but no country with such a threat would be okay with regions just going “Nothing much needs to change, we’ll remain in the EU, still friendly in every way with our previous country, we’ll just stop financing the bloodsuckers at <capital / poorer region>”…
Ireland should unify, Scotland should go independent, both should merge into a single Gaelic state that’s in the EU and I should emigrate there due to in-laws. Oh and we should build a wall to stop the failed state English from seeking asylum.
Scotland had their say in 2014. That should be it for a generation or so. Besides, I don’t think they can afford independence - it would be pretty disastrous for them financially (as far as I know).
There’s no significant support for independence in Euskadi (the Basque Country) (it’s about 22% right now and it’s not moving significantly higher). The main issue is Catalonia, where about half the population support independence (and half don’t, which creates the current mess).
Spain would certainly veto an independent Catalonia entering the EU, at least for a while. But there’s a constitutional loophole at the moment and all Catalonians born before the split would still be considered Spanish citizens, and thus European Citizens. Spain would thus also veto any country that splits from entering back for a while, unless there was a lot of diplomatic pressure from France-Germany.
I think any people have the right to split from their home country (I think it’s a stupid sentiment, rooted in xenophobia and selfishness, but people have the right to be stupid), but the vote to trigger such a split should be higher than 50% because otherwise you change the status quo into uncertainty and force half the unwilling population into such uncertainty.
Scotch egg zit?
The issue being that Brexit wasn’t a thing in 2014, and given Scotland voted comprehensively (~62%) for Remain, I do wonder if the 2014 result would have been different if they’d known…
Yeah Brexit has achieved the impossible, made me a tentative supporter of Scottish Independence which I opposed strongly a few years ago. They have guaranteed any UK citizen, Scottish citizenship, which means the prize of EU citizenship.
I suspect north of the border there are many folks of a similar mind who would now vote for Independence.
I don’t know how much economic sense Scottish independence would make, all the statistics I’ve read make it look not great, but hey, it’s the Brexit topic, economics are so pre-2016…
I honestly wonder about this, myself; if the rest of the UK is going to take a financial beat-down from Brexit (assuming it happens), would the hit Scotland would take from independence be as bad as previously imagined?
Yeah, which is worse? Scotland in the UK but not the EU, or Scotland in the EU but not the UK? It’s probably better long-term for Scots to be part of the EU, at least in terms of maximum opportunity for young people, but the short term is bad either way. And I think if the people of Scotland know in 2014 that they’re choosing between them, they choose the EU.
Probably not - especially if Scotland were smart about it and ended up with a huge influx of UK companies moving North to stay within the EU :)
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