On Fri, 19 Sep 2014 09:57:54 +1000, Rod Speed wrote:

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.

Show where this applies. Show web pages where it actually says that a
Commonwealth country can use a British embassy where they have none.