re: #89 John Hughes

Maybe. But Britain doesn’t get to make that decision unilaterally, the existing EU states have to decide whether they want Britain back. And some of them will have to hold referendums to see whether to accept the UK back into the fold.

I am certain that most EU countries would be happy to have them back, as long as Britain is willing to be reasonable and accept the rules that the EU lives by, namely that free flow of goods and capital cannot be decoupled from free flow of people.

So yeah, once Scotland goes independent, there is little chance that what is left of boneheaded, arrogant England will come to accept those terms.