On 13/01/2014 03:11, Charles Ellson wrote:

-Scotland would be chucked out of the EU (no competent ruling or
decision actually exists but e.g. Germany did not have to leave the EU
when re-forming as the EU just tailored appropriate arrangements)

Germany didn't re-form. The Laender in the Democratic Republic all
signed up for the Federal Republic's
not-quite-in-theory-but-in-practice-a-constitution, which had been
written with the specific aim of enabling this to happen at some point,
and thus the Laender became part of the Federal Republic. The current
Germany is actually "West Germany", but with more territory than it used
to have.

An equivalent might be if all 50 US states decided to transfer their
allegiance to Canada, leaving nothing behind for the US national
government to govern.

The biggest lie in the Scottish campaign seems to be the belief that
many people in England are all that bothered... (although maybe the
monks at Buckfast are worried about any future import tariffs Scotland
might impose?).
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Arthur Figgis Surrey, UK