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@rightgrand wrote:

What really makes me laugh is that Sturgeon wants independence but wants to join the EU!  What sort of independence would that be?  Probably much less independent than remaining part of the truly independent UK, making trade deals directly with the rest of the world instead of hiding inside the dying protectionist corpse that the EU is becoming. 

 

They also reckon they're going to use the £ as currency, which is laughably ill-educated garbage.  No independent country has ever used another country's currency, for very good reasons.

 

The UK's EU referendum was short on facts, but the Scottish Independence one was just based on dreams that nobody had actually thought through in any detail.

 

Personally, I believe that the apparent uprising of independence in Scotland is more to do with the failure of the Labour party than anything else.

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Do you really think that Scotland will be able to make "trade deals directly with the rest of the world" or will these be made by a Conservative government - a party that managed to hold on to just one of its Parliamentary seats in Scotland at the last General Election and scraped just 22% of the vote in the elections for the Scottish Parliament.  Outside of the EU in terms of trade Scotland will have no more independence, (possibly less), in terms of making trade deals than it does as a member.

There are numerous countries that don't have their own currency and use other country's currency as legal tender.

Whilst Scotland is part of the UK it is not right to compare it with regions in the UK such as the North West, West country etc. - Scotland is a nation, just as much as England is a nation.