No. The Schengen Treaty was incorporated into the EU treaty, so ratifying the latter automatically means ratifying the former (for new states).
That’s what I meant. So unless things were changed for Scotland (or it was somehow deemed to be entitled to the UK’s exemption from the Schengen provisions), it would eventually have to have entry and exit controls at the English border, wouldn’t it?
Because people from their own country are Scottish . . .
Teleworking, video and tele-conferencing and air travel with the ocassional train ride thrown in. I do generally spend 60% of the time at my home office and the rest in either London, Munich or Zurich.
Got to be very organised and disciplined but the lifestyle suits me and am fortunate that my job role is pretty well suited.
Damned Scots! They ruined Scotland!
Oh, I see. Yes, I suppose it would.
Hogfather: You wouldn’t happen to have any answers to the questions I asked above, would you? Let me repeat them here and add another one:
[ol][li]Why are you in favor of independence for Scotland?[/li][li]Why should an independent Scotland maintain a monarchy?[/li]If an independent Scotland were to be a monarchy, why should that monarch be the one currently residing in London?[/ol]
Or Francis II
All the time I lived in the UK, I often had Scottish notes and I never had a problem, unless you count scores of salesgirls cooing “oh been to Scotland have we?”. Northern Irish notes OTH…
I will say this. Scotland entered the Union as a bankrupt nation on the arse end of Europe. Salmond seems determined that it will leave to regain that status.
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Hogfather: You wouldn’t happen to have any answers to the questions I asked above, would you? Let me repeat them here and add another one:
[ol][li]Why are you in favor of independence for Scotland?[/li][li]Why should an independent Scotland maintain a monarchy?[/li][li]If an independent Scotland were to be a monarchy, why should that monarch be the one currently residing in London?[/ol][/li][/QUOTE]
I strongly suspect the answer to (2) and (3) will turn out to be that maintaining the status quo for relatively unimportant bits like the Head of State has been calculated by the SNP to maximize the chances of a YES vote.
Just like reducing the voting age to 16+.
And retaining NATO membership.
It has absolutely nothing to do with conviction. Alex Salmond has principles, but if you don’t like them he has others. 
I humbly disagree. Back in 1912 while London was indisputably the capital so much stuff went on in other cities, like Liverpool, Birmingham, Bradford, Glasgow, Bristol and so on.
Now almost everything of consequence happens in London.
Dear god, don’t forget more haggis, an intolerable food.
I would tend to agree with you about the hazards of being overly centralized. But I recently read an article in the Economist that’s making me rethink: Concrete gains. It’s thesis is that euro-zone cities are too small and the economies are not centralized enough, in comparison to the United States. Our cities have more people and larger output than their cities. I don’t know how correct it is (they have a list of academic sources), but it is an interesting idea.
Can the UK vote to kick Scotland out of the country, kind of like Survivor, but with countries? If it’s a hit over there, we can make an American version 
Seeing as the UK Parliament is sovereign and can constitutionally do whatever it pleases, it could indeed vote to eject Scotland from the Union (essentially by repealing the 1707 Treaty of Union).
I’m all for it.
Mostly for reasons of “fuck yeah!”
I’d rather not. The vast majority of Scots are lovely people and I happily identify myself as British.
That’s an interesting point, actually.
Quite probably a lot of it is from moving to a services-based economy. Even if a lot of the donkey work happens somewhere like Milton Keynes, and your call centre is in Hamilton because everyone loves a Scottish accent, you keep your HQ in London.
That’s somewhat harder with manufacturing.
But it’s a bugger. There was never any doubt in my mind from the age of 12 that I would end up in London for some part of my early career and I expect it’s the same now for any ambitious teenagers.
The only exception really that I can think of is R&D/Manufacturing type stuff which is scattered around… although even then a lot of the most advanced R&D is around Cambridge or Oxford.
(another thing which just came into my head: women are prettier and the population in general is far thinner in central London. I do wonder why that is)