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Look, I supported Scottish independence last time round, i cannot stand the UK government and it's inevitable direction towards Farage and his bullshit. I don't know how cutting off our best possible trading partner, the only one we currently and will ever share a border with, England, in favour of the EU will actually help us. I can't remember the figures but our trade is something like 90% with England, but England doesn't rely on us for anything, so they'd be immediately in a stronger position at the negotiating table. I really don't know how I'd vote now. My heart says yes to independence, my head says no.
Besides all of that, the SNP have been dangling this carrot for years, I'll believe it when I see it. We've heard this many times since the last referendum.
Of course, but that requires both sides to actually want that. The rest of UK will not want this to work for the same reason that the EU didn't want Brexit to work, it gives other nations ideas about leaving. Even the SNP doesn't really want it to go perfectly because they'll lose their scapegoat that has given them power for over 15 years.
Sorry, but this just isn't true.
You can absolutely be in the whole integrated EU market and not be a member. Other countries do it, but the ONLY way to do it is to follow the exact same rules for every single product.
And that's the one thing the UK absolutely refused to do. You can't be part of an internal market if you refuse to follow the rules, and since an EU Scotland would, and a Brexit England wouldn't, it can't work, ever.