Leave A Light On In Heaven......

[ToraToraTora]

https://news.sky.com/story/brexit-nicola-sturgeon-asks-eu-to-keep-the-light-on-for-scotland-12176913
Looks like the wee un is a Belinda Carlisle fan! PMSL!

[ToraToraTora]

Not much of a likeness but a great song:

[LadyCG]

She's a right pudding!

[ToraToraTora]

can't stand stick insect birds.

[royfromaus]

You really should join Twitface...we have been having fun with this for a couple of days.

[Deskdiary]

“Scotland will be back soon, Europe”

Who is she saying something that is simply not true? What is she achieving by telling a bare-faced lie?

[Deskdiary]

Should be ‘why’ not ‘who’.

I hate predictive text!

[waterboatman]

She's something else isn't she!

[riptide]

She’s living in cuckoo land, poor woman.

[naomi24]

She never seems to mind embarrassing herself. Perhaps the Scots should have another referendum on independence. After all, the last one took place before Brexit amounted to a feasible twinkle. That would - hopefully - put the matter to rest once and for all - although, given a win for Nicola, Scotland would still be outside the EU with no guarantee of an invitation to join. Scotland could well find itself in lonely place - and much colder than it's ever been.

[woofgang]

what a waste of power....very poor ecological image!

[Jackdaw33]

She's just trying to rekindle the Auld Alliance, which was one of the reasons for the Act of Union in the first place.

[ichkeria]

It is not beyond the bounds of possibility though that one day Scotland will leave the UK. Despite any future objection from the likes of Spain (which seem illogical to me but that’s Spain for you) it would be pretty much certain that membership of the EU would follow at some point.
In that case England and Wales might remain a non-EU enclave, smaller, poorer and anxious for the restoration of the common travel and trade enjoyed all around it while having failed somehow to meld itself to the Asian economic culture some Wen to be attracted by.
Might not happen.
But it very well might, and that is why the future is uncertain. I certainly wouldn’t want to take any bluster from the PM and co as gospel just now.
Given their record so far.

[ABerrant]

//Despite any future objection from the likes of Spain (which seem illogical to me but that’s Spain for you)//

Spain does not wish for Catalunya to follow suit, therefore logic abounds.

//...it would be pretty much certain that membership of the EU would follow at some point.//

Scotland becoming a potential EU accession candidate would join the queue of current candidates and would need to agree to the myriad accession commitments that the UK never had to e.g. adoption of the Euro.
Apropos the aforementioned 'illogical' Spain, the candidacy of The Republic of North Macedonia has been stalled for 15 years because Greece is unhappy with their name.

[ichkeria]

“Catalunya” is not an independent country last time I checked ...

[ABerrant]

Scotland is not an independent country last time I checked, else what is Nicola Sturgeon speaking about.

[ichkeria]

It’s not.
But I thought the idea was that it WOULD be when it applied for membership

[ABerrant]

Likewise Catalunya

[Canary42]

//// What is she achieving by telling a bare-faced lie? ///

Ask Boris, he's a past master at it.

[ichkeria]

But as I said, it’s not independent and has no realistic prospect of becoming so.
Spain’s supposed objection is based on the vague idea that it would encourage Catalonian independence were Scotland to be admitted to the EU. I don’t think that objection, though perhaps real enough, bears up very badly to close scrutiny and I’d have thought could be easily negotiated away. If Spain did agree to independence for Catalonia and it became independent and applied to join the EU I’d have thought Spain would then be in favour.

[steg]

https://fullfact.org/europe/eu-membership-spain-scotland/