Dear All
Awhile ago, Scotland’s unpopular Deputy
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon was trying to do a damage limitation exercise
after she and the SNP were exposed as talking out of their collective asses!
Ms. Sturgeon tried to then get a meeting
with the EU regarding Scotland’s future membership of the organisation.
Not surprisingly, she was blown off by the
EU who said ‘go away’.
That debacle has been running for a long
time, here is a post I wrote in December 2012.
The SNP attempting to rewrite history, to
do that trick first you have to be a Victor.
It was a disgraceful episode in the SNP of lying to
voters regarding automatic membership.
Fast forward to the present day; and there are
fresh doubts cast on an independent Scotland being ‘fast-tracked’ as a new
member.
Scotland cannot be fast tracked because
they would be a new member, and 27 members have a right of veto in the European
Union.
Mariano Rajoy, the Spanish Prime Minister
is having a good Scottish independence campaign despite not being involved in
it, he has problems at home. He has made quite clear Scotland would "have
to join the queue" of aspirant candidate countries.
Also this means that Scotland doesn’t
decide what the terms of membership are, the EU will do that.
As to there being a queue, well, it seems
that like the post office, Salmond and Sturgeon will have to stand in line and
wait till the five in front are dealt with.
Rajoy also suggests what many people
already know, if Scots voted for independence, the newly created independent
state would be automatically thrown out of the EU.
Once out, then and only then would it be
eligible to apply for membership.
This means that EU money will dry up, Environment
Secretary Richard Lochhead:
"There's no reason to anticipate
any disruption because the budgets are set to 2020."
That only applies to members, not countries
that aren’t members.
Rajoy added on Scotland’s major EU problem:
"This is a fact. It's neither a value
judgment nor an opinion. If part of a country integrated into the EU leaves
that country, then, logically, it would be outside the EU not because I say so
but because that's what the treaties say."
So, how can SNP Minister Richard Lochhead
say budgets won’t be disrupted?
By the power of breath passing over the vocal
chords!
Yes, that is it, nothing to do with Law or
Treaties, plain simple exhalation.
The SNP Government argues if Scots vote Yes
next year, there would be a seamless transition towards the newly independent
nation's full membership of the EU.
Is this evidence that comes from the EU?
No, it isn’t, it is just assumption which
is presented as fact and as such it is worthless.
Totally worthless, the SNP Government
cannot commit the EU to anything regarding membership until Scotland applies as
a new state. In truth, they can’t even start a discussing because they aren’t
allowed to tamper with the internal domestic politics of a member, in this case
the UK.
Salmond and Co are said to be confident the
18-month period between a Yes vote in September and Independence Day in March
2016 would be a realistic timetable in securing full EU membership.
But what happens if a country says No?
Well, that previously happened to Britain
and they were denied membership for years.
A senior Brussels source has told The
Herald that even if Scotland were ‘fast-tracked’ it would take at least two
years to join the EU.
Another point worth mentioning if Scotland
was independent, would EU law apply between leaving the UK and therefore the EU
and regaining membership?
And is there a Bill in the White paper to
cover this?
I suspect there isn’t because the SNP
cannot be arsed doing any real work or thinking.
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University
2 comments:
I guess the indy campaign is pretty much over now.
I wish it was.
I still can't believe they have as much support as they do. The stupidity of some people beggars belief.
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