Thread by @BingoDemagogue

Long Read: The Copenhagen Concealment.

If you are interested in the potential of a iScot in the EU, you'l find this an informative and, I hope, a useful resource. I can promise if you read it, you will be better informed than most UK politicians!

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This detailed study looks at the positions, paths, promises and problems & links to primary sources from the ScotGovt, Holyrood committees, The European Commission, EU publications & law, as well as secondary sources like quotes from politicians & media.

I analyse the process and different proposals, busting many myths, mistakes and misconceptions. It is a long read, so it has been broken down into these sections that can be individually book-marked and referred to... Here we go!

"What is this report?" It does not claim to be an authoritative source, but to help voters to understand the process and ask the right questions so you can judge for yourself.
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"Why is this important to me?" If Brexit has taught us anything, it's that voters should be entitled to make evidence-led informed decisions, but efforts are being made to keep you ignorant.

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"Why don’t we have a definitive answer by now?" Its complicatedly simple; we know the criteria, we know the process; but there are different scenarios that change the issues.

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"What process would Scotland need to use to join the EU?" Several options have been suggested; but only ever one from the body that decides.
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"The Copenhagen Criteria – The criteria to become an EU member state." If you don't understand these, you don't understand the issue. populistsplaybook.com/the-copenhagen…

How are countries assessed to have met the criteria and acquis? This is the step most often glossed over or skipped. Yet it's the most critical, detailed, part of the process.

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Would an independent Scotland apply to get into the EU? I think we would try, it's by no means certain.

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"Putting Different scenarios into the Algorithm" I've looked at three suggested paths into the EU, and analysed them against the EU treaties and processes.

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"The 2014 Indyref Scenario – S30 Referendum & Whitepaper plans" We need to understand what happened, and was said, in 2014. Many people still don't know the truth, and that's distorting our understanding today populistsplaybook.com/the-copenhagen…

"A new S30 referendum & Growth Commission Implemented" The current official plan. ** Possibly the most important section in this thread ** populistsplaybook.com/the-copenhagen…

A Unilateral Declaration of Independence or Wildcat Referendum - the high risk #PlanB option that many in the Scottish Independence Movement are calling for. populistsplaybook.com/the-copenhagen…

"The Copenhagen Concealment" what is being concealed and why? populistsplaybook.com/the-copenhagen…

Recap of coverups – "What is the #CopenhagenReport?" A tale of a denial and a coverup; apparently knowing the truth is 'not in the public interest' populistsplaybook.com/the-copenhagen…

"What do we ask?" Don't take my word for any of this; here is the question you can ask, of any politician, that gets to the heart of the matter.
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"But, But, But… The objections and claims"
The same false claims have been doing the rounds; here is the reality populistsplaybook.com/the-copenhagen…

“We already meet all the criteria.” We don't, and if you have made it this far, you will see just how impossible this claim is.

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“The EU has said we would get in.” Drilling down into who is meant by the 'EU' and what exactly they said in context; populistsplaybook.com/the-copenhagen…

"Alyn Smith’s “Scotland in Europe” a resource that lies by omission, but exposes some thoughts. populistsplaybook.com/the-copenhagen…

"The Salamone report & The Montenegro Scenario" there are some critical missing steps in this proposal populistsplaybook.com/the-copenhagen…

"The Hughes-Lock Article" again, what it didn't say was possibly more informative than what it did. populistsplaybook.com/the-copenhagen…

"The Deficit Red-Herring" it's true; we don't need a deficit under 3% to join. That doesn't mean it isn't an issue though populistsplaybook.com/the-copenhagen…

"We will just use the Pound" it's literally impossible to meet the criteria while using the pound in a currency union, formal or otherwise. populistsplaybook.com/the-copenhagen…

"We will just use the Euro"
There is a test case for this: Montenegro, and it's one of the things *stopping* them joining the EU. populistsplaybook.com/the-copenhagen…

"We can just join EFTA in the meantime"
Yes, Possibly; it would need a u-turn from the SNP who called EFTA "a bad deal for Scotland" certainly we shouldn't vote for EU then get EFTA in a bait and switch. populistsplaybook.com/the-copenhagen…

Conclusion - Coverup, Concealment and Craftiness. populistsplaybook.com/the-copenhagen…

"Correct me, challenge me, Call me out."
"If anyone can show me to be wrong, I will thank them and correct it; I seek the truth, by which no man was ever harmed." populistsplaybook.com/the-copenhagen…