Is Jimi the best 'ambassador' the 'Yes' people can come up with around these parts?
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Originally Posted by Derek
It would have every right to APPLY to join the EU. And as a new member it would have to accept the Euro (Which would mean BIG cuts in spending to get within deficit limits), Schengen and numerous other impositions that wold leave Scotland nowhere near independent as I would think of it.
So really you want to go from a union that's lasted hundreds of years, where Scotland has arguably a disproportionate voice, to one that's a decade or so old and would have Scotland as a VERY junior member?
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Course he would 'cos he's really thought this all through...
Salmond's delusions of grandeur seem to have extended to (and depend upon) an Independent Scotland being able to dictate what it wants from the rest of the world in spite of all the evidence to the contrary.