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Another seemingly glossed over outcome of a border, apart from goods, is the potential impact upon people. It wouldn’t seem unreasonable to suggest the rUK wouldn’t be too happy for Scots to ‘walk’ across the border in search of jobs or benefits. Therefore, it would seem probable that both Scots & rUK citizens ensconced in a ‘foreign’ country would have to apply for leave to remain there, as happened post Brexit…….an end to freedom of movement within the now UK!

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Of course you are right but I do feel constrained to repeat what I regard as an essential point. Only the Labour Party has the clout to get some of these arguments across to a wide public but once again there was pretty much silence on Nicola's latest attempt to obfuscate the truth.

To give one small example - as you point out there would need to be controls on all the border roads but Nicola only mentioned the M74 and A1 - which is nonsense. Nobody challenged her on this blatant falsehood.

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All this is obvious but why has the Scottish and national press and opposition not been all over this blatant nonsense?

When even a leading independence supporter Robin McAlpine, political campaigner and founder of the pro-independence Common Weal think tank, derided the economic paper from Sturgeon as “utter pish”.

Why is this not front and centre of political discussion here, it's an utter disgrace.

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A minor point, but I do notice a difference between Scotland and England when using the motorways - as soon as you leave the M74 and join the M6, the number of nanny state electronic gantry signs disappear.

England copes quite well without these signs telling them to check tyre pressures, or check your windscreen is clear.

It's almost like the snp think we're stupid and they know better than us.

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