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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
A decade? Your joking arnt you, within 2 years Scotland's out of the EU, has no currency or central bank, will have lost the right of free movement and will have tariffs imposed on their exports across the UK and Europe.
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"DOOM AND DISASTER." This is extremely unlikely.
A lot would happen in those two years. It's not like everybody is just going to sit on their hands and wait. The path of least resistance is mostly to keep things as they are, and I don't see humans suddenly changing here. New deals will be made.
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The cost of establishing its own currency will devastate public spending in the country.
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Nah. Currencies come and go. It's not free, but it's not exactly the end of the world either.
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Incidently CEO's could care less about Scotland, it's a tiny market that will have to sell its oil anyway.
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Same ballpark as Finland, Greece, Portugal, Ireland and Czech, even without the oil. CEO's care about all of those countries.
I can tell by just looking around that international companies are interested in getting into our market, and I only need to read newspapers to know that they want to make sure we sign as many trade agreements as possible. I don't see why it would be different for Scotland.
Big companies have put a lot of effort into making sure trade within western Europe is as easy as possible. The companies that are against the "yes" vote are against change. They're not going to go from not wanting change to not caring about change.
Which means that if the vote is "yes", they will then shift gears from backing the "no" vote to making sure the "yes" vote has as little economical impact as possible, which means they'll want lots of new trade agreements done and quickly.
Which ultimately is in everybody's interest.
As for the oil, most European countries don't have oil, and are perfectly fine without it. Scotland will live without it just like we do.