On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 18:14:27 +0000, Arthur Figgis
wrote:

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",

ITYM the German Federal Republic, created in 1949 and to which the
Bundestag seems to refer in the present tense :-
https://www.bundestag.de/htdocs_e/ar...ism/index.html
as does the UK :-
http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/taxtreaties/in-force/germany.pdf
[UK/FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY DOUBLE TAXATION CONVENTION
SIGNED 30 MARCH 2010]

but with more territory than it used to have.

Thus it physically reformed along with all the EU-related consequences
of doing so. How many MEPs were there for GDR constituencies before
re-union ?

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.

About as likely as Barking seceding from the Union and joining Serbia?

The biggest lie in the Scottish campaign seems to be the belief that
many people in England are all that bothered...

Indeed, there is little of the "everybody's talking about it" as
implied by Bitter Together and the Unionist tabloids (at least in
their kilted editions).

(although maybe the
monks at Buckfast are worried about any future import tariffs Scotland
might impose?).

They must be cacking themselves at the thought of having to establish
a new user base. Mossside ? Toxteth ?