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  • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    the scottish nationalists have been in charge of scotland for years they seem to have taken no steps to leave and also don't seem to have a plan to.

          • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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            2 years ago

            best of luck to them but what are they going to do with said mandate to actually leave

            and what are they going to do after that

            • TerminalEncounter [she/her]
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              2 years ago

              Probably petition to join the EU and be very slightly to the left of standard euro neoliberalism. Not as far as any Scandinavian country, maybe around Germany.

                • Dyno [he/him]
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                  2 years ago

                  Scotland does have like all the UK's oil so, :freedom-and-democracy:

                  • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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                    2 years ago

                    it has most of the UK's oil but the UK is not a major oil producing country. Most of the UK's oil isn't actually that much

                    • GenderIsOpSec [she/her]
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                      2 years ago

                      there's still some oil there, and the eu is currently looking for it's next fix like an addict suffering from withdrawal after russia cut them off

                      • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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                        2 years ago

                        the EU already has norway which produces 10 times the amount of oil and Scotland is a rural area that would be entitled to a lot of subsidies without much of a financial economy which is what the EU liked the UK for. Also it would massively complicate the EU's relationship with the UK and might therefore cost the Germans money

                        • GenderIsOpSec [she/her]
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                          2 years ago

                          i didnt say it was a good plan, eu is hella desperate though. i seem to recall there were some problems that we're currently going through our emergency supplies of oil and we need to refill those during the summer or the next winter will be bad. we'll probably just bomb the middle-east some more though.

                          • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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                            2 years ago

                            hell the plan is dependent on how the indepenence deal divides up national waters and if the UK keeps the oil rich parts of the north sea the whole thing is fucked

    • edge [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      they seem to have taken no steps to leave

      Aren't they holding a referendum this year? Like they're trying to get it approved but I thought they were going to do it anyway no matter what.