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**Chris** · 14-03-2017, 09:03

First ... don't take anything any MEP says too seriously, even if they're a member of their domestic "ruling party". They have different priorities and different audiences to impress. You wouldn't, for example, take anything Dan Hannan says as being necessarily indicative of Tory policy.

Second ... I don't think anyone's saying Scotland can't join the EU. That would be an absurd argument, given the state of some of the other countries they've let in already. The argument is over whether there can be continuity of membership (there won't be) and the terms of membership (no pound, no rebate, that's for certain; the border mechanism will depend on the eventual treaty between the UK and the EU, but there will be a border of sorts, just as there's inevitably going to be one in Ireland).

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Chris Trollsplatter Cable Forum Team Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: North of Watford Services: Humane elimination of all common Internet pests Posts: 36,928	Re: Will Scotland Leave the UK? First ... don't take anything any MEP says too seriously, even if they're a member of their domestic "ruling party". They have different priorities and different audiences to impress. You wouldn't, for example, take anything Dan Hannan says as being necessarily indicative of Tory policy. Second ... I don't think anyone's saying Scotland can't join the EU. That would be an absurd argument, given the state of some of the other countries they've let in already. The argument is over whether there can be continuity of membership (there won't be) and the terms of membership (no pound, no rebate, that's for certain; the border mechanism will depend on the eventual treaty between the UK and the EU, but there will be a border of sorts, just as there's inevitably going to be one in Ireland).