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Scottish independence is a bad idea for many of the same reasons that Brexit was a bad idea and Brexit has made Scottish independence into a much worse idea. I
by ErikCorry 4y ago
Scottish independence is a bad idea for many of the same reasons that Brexit was a bad idea and Brexit has made Scottish independence into a much worse idea. Instead of being like the Czechoslovak break-up it would be more like the issues around the Northern Irish border.
Having a huge land border which is an EU/non-EU border with customs controls would be massive economic disruption on both sides of the border. The damage to people's jobs and lives would be huge. This border has been open since 1707 and people have based their lives and livelihoods around being able to cross it freely with goods and services. I can see the romantic appeal of an independent Scotland, but it would objectively be a disaster.
- mvc 4y ago> Having a huge land border which is an EU/non-EU border with customs controls would be massive economic disruption on both sides of the border. Is it really considered a huge border? There's only 5 roads that cross it.
- ErikCorry 4y ago29 by my count. It's a rural area and the border follows some rivers that have a limited number of bridges. No roads at all connect England with France, but Brexit still caused a lot of disruption.
- mvc 4y ago> 29 by my count. There's 5 "A" roads. Not sure how you got to 29 but my guess is there's going to be a lot of single-track lanes in that number. Hard to imagine huge trucks of counterfeit goods running up and down the B6318. > No roads at all connect England with France, but Brexit still caused a lot of disruption. The UK government said all these problems were caused by the intransigence of the EU so that need not be a problem this time.
- randomsearch 4y agoMuch more of a disaster for England, which is pretty worrying for that declining nation. Scotland will have the single market as compensation.