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@kirtai @cstross And who knows? If, 20 or 30 years on, England has by then managed to comprehensively detorify and defaragize itself, Scotland can sponsor its southern neighbour’s article 49 petition for accession to the EU.

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@kirtai @cstross Fast forward. When IndyRef2 comes, I will gladly and publicly encourage Scots to vote Go. It’s about European union, a fight in which I very emphatically have a dog. The EU will fast-track Scottish accession; Spain, specifically and expressly, has stated it will throw up no barriers. Scotland won’t be the seceder. It will be abandoning a seceder to rejoin the Union it overwhelmingly supports. And Europe will welcome it back home.

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@cstross @kirtai But if Scottish friends asked what I thought, I said: don’t leave. You value EU membership; you won’t have it if you go. Spain will certainly veto, and you’ll have a cold shoulder from the rest, as the EU is not in the business of encouraging bits of its member states to secede.

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@cstross @kirtai
At the time of IndyRef1, I took no public position. I am not a Scot, nor otherwise British; I had no (direct) dog in the fight.

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