[uncle_j]

The article is over 2 years old and Alfonso Dastis isn't the current foreign minister.

In any event Scottish Independence isn't going to happen anytime soon with Boris Johnson shutting down any possibility of an Indy Ref 2 last week.

[woolly]

So how then do you know that Spain will veto a Scottish application to rejoin? Have Spain produced a more up to date statement changing their position? If not, then are you not just spreading FUD?

edit: Also, Johnson shutting down the possibility of a second independence referendum is not the be all and end all: the Scottish government could pass legislation for one without a section 30, which would likely be challenged in court by the UK government. If the supreme court upholds the right for Scots to vote in a referendum, then it goes ahead.

[uncle_j]

> So how then do you know that Spain will veto a Scottish application to rejoin?

It is what I suspect after living in Spain as an Expat near Gibraltar for 3-4 years. I wasn't aware the official position has changed, however the Spanish Politics is all over the place especially after Vox (a Nationalist / Anti-Immigration party) did quite well in Andalusia.

> Have Spain produced a more up to date statement changing their position?

I think it is irrelevant and I qualified why in my previous post.

> If not, then are you not just spreading FUD?

It is simply a political opinion based on what I have observed after previously living there.

> edit: Also, Johnson shutting down the possibility of a second independence referendum is not the be all and end all: the Scottish government could pass legislation for one without a section 30, which would likely be challenged in court by the UK government. If the supreme court upholds the right for Scots to vote in a referendum, then it goes ahead.

Boris Johnson is going curtain the Supreme Courts interference with how the Commons work so I wouldn't count on that. If one is to believe David Starkey (who is a historian) he believes that the Supreme court shouldn't exist and is something invented by Tony Blair. Dominic Cummings is doing a shake up of the Civil Service. So I wouldn't count on any of that being relevant for too much longer.