Scotland and rUK could negotiate what ever deal they wanted, but border controls seem unlikely.
That’s true; but CMD isn’t going to be happy that his legacy is going to be the break up of the union so he may pause **** up the rest of the country to hurt the Scottish.
So they mutter but it’d by no means a given- another case of “what we’ll do in advance vs what we’ll do when faced with practicality” methinks, since they have the largest fishing industry in the EU and are heavily dependant on the north sea fishing. It’d be a massive hit in the wallet and they’d be weighing up the propaganda-only effect on separatism at home, against the very real gdp and employment hit.
So they mutter but it’d by no means a given- another case of “what we’ll do in advance vs what we’ll do when faced with practicality” methinks, since they have the largest fishing industry in the EU and are heavily dependant on the north sea fishing. It’d be a massive hit in the wallet and they’d be weighing up the propaganda-only effect on separatism at home, against the very real gdp and employment hit.
Also true, but the likelyhood of Scotland being in the EU in 18 months is pretty much zero according to anyone with any knowledge or background. If they take standard terms 2 years is possible, if they want the same terms as the UK then that’s going to take decades.
So we would still have a few years of Scotland in limbo.
Personally I don’t care as long as they get on with it, my only regret is the rest of the UK will be stuck with these **** for a long long time. That and a lot of friend’s lives will be massively disrupted when they have to leave Scotland due to their industries moving.