Dear All
The SNP lied to the people of Scotland when
they said that Scotland would have automatic EU membership.
It’s a lie and worse still it is a lie that
the SNP having been caught still keep pumping out in various guises.
Alex Salmond insists there is “substantial
evidence” that Scotland will not be kicked out of the EU.
There isn’t, and another falsehood is that
if Scotland was independent it can renegotiate membership from inside.
If you are already on the ‘inside’ you have
membership.
So, that is false.
The Spanish Prime Minister Mariano
Rajoy warns last night that Scotland would be forced to exit the EU
after a Yes vote in the referendum.
This is because there is no contract of
membership between the Scottish Government and the EU.
There has never been, so Salmond can’t renegotiate
from the inside.
One of the things which I expected not to
be in the white paper was a Bill to enable EU law to continue if there was a
Yes vote between Scotland leaving and possibly gaining EU membership. And there
is no guarantee when that would take place or how long talks would take place.
Spain’s Prime Minister is being “straighter
with Scots” than the SNP, which is hardly surprising since Alex Salmond and
unpopular Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon continually face major
questions regarding trust, not just in their defunct Government but in them
also.
Can you trust Alex Salmond and Nicola
Sturgeon?
No, you cannot trust Salmond and
Sturgeon.
The issue of the EU is central to the
independence debate, over 18 months ago, unpopular DFM Nicola Sturgeon was destroyed on the
BBC when Tory Leader Ruth Davidson pulled out a letter that the SNP had never
been in touch with the EU regarding membership… in their entire history.
If Scotland is out of the UK, there are concerns
that a “renegotiation” as the Nats term it could mean Scotland forced to adopt
the euro currency, join the Schengen open borders area with mainland Europe and
lose the UK’s multi-billion pound budget rebate.
The UK’s multi-billion pound budget rebate
remains with the UK, it cannot be transferred to Scotland because that is a
separate contract.
So, no rebate for Scotland, and in the gap,
it means no EU grants either for a non EU member Scotland.
At FMQ’s Salmond is stsill pedling the
falsehood that:
“Scotland will be negotiating its position
from within the European Union.”
Untrue, untrue and untrue, it is a con
trick from a man who can’t even be straight with the people anymore.
Salmond is relying on a letter from the
head of unit of the European Commission Secretairiat-general, he stated:
“The ongoing democratic process is a matter
for the UK and Scottish Governments and the Scottish people. It would be
legally possible to renegotiate the situation of the UK and Scotland within the
European Union.”
That doesn’t mean it would be legal in fact
just that the Scots could legally start negotiations, it is an attempt to use
words to construct a proposition which isn’t valid.
This shows how much utter contempt Alex
Salmond holds working class Scots in such low regard.
Former European Court judge Sir David
Edward has also said the EU would be “obliged” to enter negotiations before
Scotand become fully independent.
No, there are not “obliged” because there
is the issue of member veto on any new potential member wishing to apply, each
country in Europe has a veto. The SNP keep relying of people who have no
position in the EU like Edward because they can’t get the EU on side. Edward’s
opinion is of no more value than anyone else on this matter.
Labour leader Johann Lamont said that the
Spanish Prime Minister had made it clear that by leaving the UK, Scotland would
also leave the EU and have to “reapply as a new member.”
She added: “What part of that statement
does the First Minister not understand?”
Oh, he understands it perfectly; his hope
is those working classes Scots aren’t too clever, well sadly for him, in this
country at this time; there is an education system.
Spain has problems with the Catalan
independence movement, they would reject Scotland’s membership to ensure their
own position becomes more stable at home; it isn’t a secret that Spanish
politicians will put Spanish interests before Scotland’s membership application
in the event of independence.
Rajoy has a rising Nationalist movement in
the Catalonia region of Spain, a million and a half people marched in Spain, in
Scotland, Alex Salmond could only get 8,000 to walk the streets in a recent
march.
He said he intervened because the
consequences of a Yes vote should be presented with “realism to Scots.”
The truth is the most devastating weapon in
politics, not lies; not spin, not doctoring the truth, not trying to be clever
with words.
At a press conference in Madrid, the
Spanish Prime Minister laid out the bottom line by saying.
“I know for sure that a region that would
separate from the European Union would remain outside the European Union and
that should be known by the Scots.”
Ms Lamont said:
“The Spanish Prime Minister is being
straighter with the people of Scotland than the First Minister.”
And less we forget, EU President Jose
Manuel Barroso has also said Scotland would have to re-apply to join the EU.
I think we are sick to the back teeth of the
SNP claiming things as fact and after they get found out that they claim they were ‘acting
in good faith’.
Nobody is that stupid.
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow
University
well said Laird
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