UK to leave EU

[Pat Mustard]

I don't quite understand what you mean. Do you honestly think that the EU would allow Scotland to remain part of both? In fact, it's unlikely that Westminster would allow it either.

I don't mean to speak on behalf of MG, but I think he is referring to an assumption that those who voted to remain in the EU, would vote to leave the UK in the event of a second referendum (in other words, that those people would choose EU membership over the union). I tend to agree that membership of both is not favoured by May or the EU.

I personally agree that the issue is a bit more nuanced than that, and EU but not UK membership comes with it's own set of problems that weren't a factor in indyref1, such as the English/Scottish border, and trade with the rest of the UK, which I understand to be Scotland's biggest market (and far bigger than the EU) on whatever terms the Brexit negotiations produce.

That's not to mention those Scots who don't want to be in either.

I think what'll drive the next indyref results is that a lot of people who were undecided were conned into voting remain by Cameroon and Broon stating categorically that Scotland would be devolved powers similar in scope and meaning as to those given to the Irish Free State in Nineteen and Twenty-One (aside from the foreign affairs and defence powers). Once those promises were broken, that killed the English parties in Scotland for a generation, and all the SNP needed was one nudge to push for a new referendum, given gleefully by May (who was always a brexshitter, just too cowardly to come out and openly admit it).