Thread by @BingoDemagogue

@daveylittle @sintaygaleska @MhairiHunter The EU as a body are equally bound by EU treaty law, and the European commission have said that no exceptions to the process would be made for Scotland; so if Scotland doesn't meet the criteria as they stand, it wound need treaty change 1/n

@daveylittle @sintaygaleska @MhairiHunter The EU as a body can't unilaterally change EU treaty law; they need first unanimous member support, and then unanimous ratification in every member state's national parliament 2/n

@daveylittle @sintaygaleska @MhairiHunter That means, to loosen the economic Copenhagen Criteria, Croation politicians would need to justify to Croatian voters why Scotland ( and EVERY OTHER applicant state) should be exempt from the decade of unpopular economic reforms Croatia just went through 3/n

@daveylittle @sintaygaleska @MhairiHunter Multiply this issue by every domestic parliament with a euro-sceptic element.

No. There has been no indication that exceptions would be made; OR that weakening the Economic criteria is being considered. 4/n

@daveylittle @sintaygaleska @MhairiHunter And we can prove catagorically that ,under none of the scenarios proposed, would an independent Scotland meet them, meet them soon, or meet them easily. 5/n

@daveylittle @sintaygaleska @MhairiHunter And when we ask "if, when or how Scotland might meet them" it's not an unreasonable question. *We know the SNP know* 6/n

@daveylittle @sintaygaleska @MhairiHunter FOI requests have uncoveredvthe existence of a feasibility analysis answering this question; but the ScotGov have redacted all the answers. 7/n

@daveylittle @sintaygaleska @MhairiHunter So maybe the question then, for SNP politicians, is: if your own feasibility study showed we *would* be in the EU, and you want to win over Soft-No remain voters, why would you fight so hard to hide it instead of shouting it from the rooftops? Thread ends.

@daveylittle @sintaygaleska @MhairiHunter Btw note chapter 17 on monetary policy.

Under the SNPs "decade of Sterlingisation" the monetary policies of everything from interest rates to quantitive easing would be decided in the non-EU rUK, making it *literally impossible* for us to meet the basic governance criteria.