Barriers to success
Now I can have breakfast in Paris, dine in Brussels and be back for supper.
The abandonment of frontier formalities across Ireland has done nothing but good in helping to resolve the Troubles.
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Hide AdThe independence movement seeks to undo all this. The frontiers are coming back. A Yes vote will precipitate Heathrow-style international immigrant border controls on the way to Newcastle, Carlisle and Belfast.
Either an independent Scotland is a new member of the EU or it is not.
If a new member, then it must by legislation be part of Schengen – a consortium of 26 European countries with a free trade and travel agreement between them – that only excludes England and Ireland. Up go the barriers.
If not a new member, then the borders will be non-EU to EU, and equally strict. Up go the barriers.
The queues from Russia and Mexico to the UK are interminable. Unfairly, the Scots with the biggest interest in this issue – those living abroad – do not have a vote.
Richard Leyz
Marchmont
Edinburgh