"Rod Speed" wrote in message
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J.B.Treadstone wrote
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.

Any place where the commonwealth country
doesn’t have anything and Britain does.

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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonw...lar_assistance

Quote from above.
In other Commonwealth countries, British High Commissions accept no
responsibility for unrepresented Commonwealth citizens, who should look to
the host Commonwealth government for quasi-consular assistance. Canadian and
Australian citizens are still able to seek consular assistance from each
other's high commissions.