Re: But that does assume Spain
first off, the Spanish view on Scotland is far more diverse and complex than the Daily Mail has told the UK it is, since it's almost axiomatic that the vast majority of Mail readers only speak English (well, sort of). Certainly there is a very mainstream view that Scotland/rUK and the Basque Country/Spain are not analogous situations anyway. So an independent Scotland is not incompatible with the Basque country being ruled from Madrid (bearing in mind how Spain is constituted - again a mystery to the Mail-reading UK population).
It's all moot anyway, if Spain carry through with their threat/promise to put Gibraltar at the top of any Brexit conditions.
Besides, as the UK should know - having made the accusation in the first place - the EU is home to some humungous horse-trading. If it suited the EU to allow an independent Scottish entry to the EU, then I am sure some deal with Spain could be done to arrange it. Probably very similar to the deal the UK got to allow loads of eastern Europeans into the EU very much against the wishes of France and Germany.
What, you mean you didn't realise it was the UK that pressed the EU for Romania, Lithuania, Estonia, Slovena, Hungary and Slovakia to join the EU ? You thought it was the EU forcing the UK to accept ?????
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