@Cyan:
If Scotland got into the EU Spain would basically explode.
I'm not sure I understand. Care to elaborate?
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The EU actually backed England by saying Scotland would never be allowed into the EU and would be left on their own. Meanwhile they're all too happy to welcome poverty-stricken, criminal Moldova into the union.
I'm a big proponent of the EU and European integration… but it's currently run by clowns. And not democratic, because Merkel gets to decide 90% of everything that goes on.
I can't for the life of me imagine the justification for even saying such a thing. Do they perhaps go by the logic that ''before Scotland was annexed into the UK by force, it was a monarchy and a dictatorship that violated human rights and Scotland has to apologize for that''?
Because as far as I'm concerned, Scotland certainly fill all the criteria for joining EU if corrupt, semi-third world east european Chizcnic countries are allowed to join and make begging gypsies the entire continent's problem.