Good news for Scotland (and the rest of us)..

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They should try and get Boris because we can all be sure that he knows what a woman is

 

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Who’s going to invade Scotland? Why couldn’t an independent Scotland have something like Irelands or Icelands armed forces or even just get rid of it and go like Costa Rica?

It’s a wider debate on what we think the UK military should look like but I don’t think an independent Scotland needs to have a large force at all. We aren’t going to see tanks roaring over the Cairngorms so why waste the money on them.

An independent Scotland would be like an open sore on Englands border - the country would be over run by CCP and Russian spies and the UK would then end up paying to secure the border as Scotland would be incapable.

If Scotland was in Ireland I doubt anyone would really care if it left but with a land border it will cause all sorts of problems that the UK tax payer will end up paying for.

 

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Lol they don't need Scotland being indepedent to have spies all over the UK... they were happily invited to come by the Tories et al.

Every country has spies that just part of the game but we have MI5 / 6 to monitor them - Scotland wouldn't.

Then you add in Faslane which would either be closed and see Scotland kicked out of NATO or Faslane would remain UK territory but would have to bus in workers from England (as you can't have third country workers on a secure military site) no doubt with Russian financed infrastructure popping up in the vicinity.

 

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Well personally not that I'd ever have the power to do it, but I would opt to just invite the US to place a significant naval and air presence while things get sorted out.

Lol so Scotlands idea of regaining sovereignty would be to give away large chunks to the US amongst others?


One other good thing about Sturgeon leaving is that the English media is likely to be as dismissive of her successor as they are of who ever it is that runs Wales. Sturgeon had a unique ability to irritate us, which the media loved pushing, but all the other SNP MP's are pretty much anonymous here.

 

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What public services do you think they would cut to cover the membership requirements?

 

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Does seem that a supposedly 'independent' Scotland would be so dependent on others - begging the UK for defence, begging to stay in NATO, begging to get in the EU and begging the US for an air base..

 

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So if Scotland hosts US military its its "giving away sovereignty" and from your inference a "bad thing" but the c10,000 US Military personnel based on 6 airbases in England isn't? That's some logic

The US bases in the UK are collaboration not because we cant protect ourselves.

 

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Have you seen the state of our armed forces?

Paywalled - but that's 5 days longer than an independent Scotland would last