Scotland’s First Minister Runs to Brussels, Declaring Allegiance to the EU

The problem with Scotland is that it’s full of Scots.

Their first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, met with the EU head to swear fealty to him and inform him that Scotland intends to stay in the EU, which implies they are going to vie for independence from Britain…again.

This is a dick move by Schultz and Juncker, a very punitive action by the EU with the explicit intend to injure the people of Great Britain.

It’s very clear by this meddling, and their childish tantrums since the BREXIT vote, that the EU does not respect the will of the English people and will do everything within their power to punish them for choosing independence.

“This is very much an initial meeting, a series of meetings in Brussels today, so that people understand that Scotland, unlike other parts, of the United Kingdom does not want to leave the European Union,” Sturgeon told reporters after meeting European Parliament President Martin Schulz.

“I don’t want to underestimate the challenges that lie ahead.”
Schulz said he had “listened and learned”.

Later in the day, the pro-independence Scottish leader will meet the head of the EU executive, European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker, and may try to probe the — hitherto flimsy — options a breakaway Scotland might have to somehow remain in the European Union once the United Kingdom completes its Brexit.

Juncker’s decision to roll out the red carpet for her on the day the 27 other EU leaders held their first meeting without Britain was seen by some diplomats as an attempt to pressure London to hand in its formal notice to quit.

But EU officials have stressed, as they did before Scots voted against independence in a referendum in 2014, that Scotland could not apply to, let alone join, the Union until it had become a sovereign state. Senior officials have dismissed the notion that Scotland could take over the empty British chair at the European Council table.

With the EU facing years of uncertainty in negotiating the withdrawal of its second-biggest economy, the Scottish factor is a complication most governments would rather avoid. Spain wary of encouraging its own Catalan separatists, and some other states could block any Scottish accession.

One senior EU official played down Juncker’s invitation to Sturgeon, noting drily that “the president likes the regions of Europe”, comparing Scotland to federal states in Germany. But some diplomats saw Juncker’s move as deliberate ploy to add pressure on Cameron and his successors to speed divorce talks.
“This is a way of putting pressure on London to trigger the exit clause,” a senior official in one EU government said of EU efforts to bounce London to the negotiating table while Cameron has insisted only his successor will set the clock ticking on a two-year deadline to withdrawal.

“This is a provocation by Juncker,” an EU diplomat said. “He can’t force the Brits to submit their notification so he plays these tricks.”

The Scots are probably too drunk to realize their towing themselves to the SS Titanic.