J.B.Treadstone wrote
Rod Speed wrote
J.B.Treadstone wrote
Dennis@home wrote
mcp wrote
J.B.Treadstone wrote

1] At the moment GB has 191 embassies & high commissions across
the world. It would costs millions for an independent Scotland to try
& establish even a tenth of this representation. As they would no
longer be part of the UK, any Scot getting into trouble in a foreign
land would have to seek help from their own embassy or HC.

The 191 embassies & high commissions of the UK are part
its assets and Scotland is entitled to its share however if there
isn't a Scottish embassy in a country any EU embassy will do.

For EU citizens maybe, but Scotland won't be for years.

Exactly. It won't be an EU member until it has negotiated an entry,

That would just be a rubber stamp exercise that wouldn’t take years.

Tell that to the EU President,

No point, he is completely irrelevant and
will be around for less than a month anyway.

who quoted EU law on the subject.

No he did not. There is no EU law on the subject.

He was just attempting to monster those who want independence.

thus would not have any embassies etc.

But would be free to use British ones, just
like other commonwealth countrys do.

Are you /really/ that ignorant?

We'll see...

Other Commonwealth countries have their *own*
embassies & high commissions throughout the world.

Yes, but they don’t all have one of either in every single
country in the entire world, for what should be rather
obvious reasons, and when they don’t, and there is a
british one in that country where it is needed, they are
free to use the british one if they choose to do that.

And in a similar vein, it may have to
apply to join the UN if it so wishes.

And joining the UN would be just rubber stamped.

It would also need to apply to join NATO,
according to the secretary-general.

And that would just be another rubber stamp exercise too.

Better tell that the UN & NATO secretary-generals.

Don’t need to, they know that.