Which urban posters will be entitled to Scots citizenship?

[WouldBe]

If going by first name gets you in then a lot of Australian men would be eligible.

 

[danny la rouge]

Here’s the government document for those who can be bothered reading it: Building a New Scotland: citizenship in an independent Scotland

 

[Sue]

The critical question that no-one has asked yet is what colour these hypothetical Scottish passports are going to be

From the article linked to in the first post:

The paper also proposes that passports in an independent Scotland would align with EU standards and be burgundy red in colour.

 

[danny la rouge]

From the article linked to in the first post:

Not Barbie pink, then? I’m out!

 

[Plumdaff]

I'm not entitled via descent but do have dual Maltese/British citizenship so I could exercise my right as a fellow EU citizen to go and live in Port Glasgow.

I did do my training in and for a couple of years work for the Scottish NHS and am open to offers...

 

[lang rabbie]

Not born in Scotland, haven't lived in Scotland for a continuous ten years, but do "have a parent who was a British citizen born in Scotland".

 

[steeplejack]

Here’s the government document for those who can be bothered reading it: Building a New Scotland: citizenship in an independent Scotland

Bizarre, really. At present it is a totally hypothetical question and everyone knows it, even those on the pro-independence side. If it had been released ten years ago it may have been worth discussing. Now, just seems like a waste of time.

 

[andysays]

Not born in Scotland, haven't lived in Scotland for a continuous ten years, but do "have a parent who was a British citizen born in Scotland".

That's my situation, though in my case strictly speaking it's had a parent born in Scotland.

Does the wording imply the parent has to still be alive?

 

[farmerbarleymow]

That's my situation, though in my case strictly speaking it's had a parent born in Scotland.

Does the wording imply the parent has to still be alive?

It says it includes deceased parents so you'll be fine.

 

[pseudonarcissus]

My parents were living in Edinburgh 9 months prior to my birth (I was born just off the M6 as they were moving to Cheshire). I have Scottish ancestry and a tartan…do I qualify?

 

[lang rabbie]

There should be triple bonus points for eligibility for having been in Scotland during the 1978 World Cup and experiencing the see-saw emotions of that Holland game after which the streets were silent and a nation mourned the greatest national catastrophe since Culloden.

 

[danny la rouge]

There should be triple bonus points for eligibility for having been in Scotland during the 1978 World Cup and experiencing the see-saw emotions of that Holland game after which the streets were silent and a nation mourned the greatest national catastrophe since Culloden.

There should certainly be points for having lived through the full horror of Andy Cameron’s World Cup song.

 

[Sue]

There should certainly be points for having lived through the full horror of Andy Cameron’s World Cup song.

Spare a thought for those of us who were young and naive enough to believe we were actually going to win the bloody thing.

 

[A380]

I know most of the first verse of Flower of Scotland. Does that count?

 

[danny la rouge]

I know most of the first verse of Flower of Scotland. Does that count?

Only if you sing the descant on “died for”.

 

[Spymaster]

Spare a thought for those of us who were young and naive enough to believe we were actually going to win the bloody thing.

We got a school assembly lecture about that.

Scotland got knocked-out and there was a fair bit of tv coverage of pissed-off Scottish supporters slagging the team off.

Mr Casey (a grossly ignorant cunt of a man who once hit me -aged 10- for correcting him that Bonn was the capital of West Germany, not Hamburg) stood there and told us that we mustn't be like the Scottish people, and that the English were much more sporting about losing; or some similar shit.

Even at that age a few of us chucked him some stealthy wanker signs.

 

[geminisnake]

It's even worse in Scotland tbh. I had three layers on yesterday.

Yesterday was shorts and T shirt weather in the NE Obviously this isn't all of Scotland. And while the weather may not always be so good the water is better and the air is cleaner

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Yesterday was shorts and T shirt weather in the NE Obviously this isn't all of Scotland. And while the weather may not always be so good the water is better and the air is cleaner

That's the challenge for Englishers who move - acclimatisation. You Scottishers need to run camps to get them used to the weather - on a wild moor with lots of midges probably.

It's fine for us Englishers who are half and half as we're genetically built to cope with it - the climate in England is basically the tropics for us.

 

[geminisnake]

That's the challenge for Englishers who move - acclimatisation. You Scottishers need to run camps to get them used to the weather - on a wild moor with lots of midges probably.

It's fine for us Englishers who are half and half as we're genetically built to cope with it - the climate in England is basically the tropics for us.

I avoid anywhere there might be midges tbh, they don't tend to bite me cos my blood has always been pants but I don't like beasties flying round me. They love mr snake and he is allergic to them, he kinda gets hives from the bites

 

[farmerbarleymow]

I avoid anywhere there might be midges tbh, they don't tend to bite me cos my blood has always been pants but I don't like beasties flying round me. They love mr snake and he is allergic to them, he kinda gets hives from the bites

I remember getting bitten by a midge on my dick on a holiday in Scotland when I was a kid. Itched like buggery.

No idea how it got through my clothing - maybe they have big fangs.

 

[Riklet]

There is zero chance Scotland would be allowed into the EU so I can't really see the point, aside from maybe a cooler passport. Not that I'm entitled to it anyway.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Not that I'm entitled to it anyway.

Bitter?

 

[Spymaster]

There is zero chance Scotland would be allowed into the EU so I can't really see the point, aside from maybe a cooler passport. Not that I'm entitled to it anyway.

It's not impossible that an independent Scotland could ultimately join the EU but it would take many years. First they've got to become independent, then they probably have to have a referendum on joining the EU, then they have to develop a history of an independently functioning economy and monetary system with a budget deficit of less than 3%. Then there's the issue of the border with England. It'll likely take a decade or two.

 

[ice-is-forming]

I think I would, I have dual nationality, England & Australia. My mum & all her family were Scotts & Irish

 

[Yossarian]

Going by recent polls, the UK will probably rejoin the EU before Scotland gains independence

 

[WouldBe]

I remember getting bitten by a midge on my dick on a holiday in Scotland when I was a kid. Itched like buggery.

No idea how it got through my clothing - maybe they have big fangs.

Trying to make 'friends' with it?

 

[geminisnake]

Going by recent polls, the UK will probably rejoin the EU before Scotland gains independence

do you think the EU will let them back in? I fecking wouldn't.

 

[Riklet]

It's not impossible that an independent Scotland could ultimately join the EU but it would take many years. First they've got to become independent, then they probably have to have a referendum on joining the EU, then they have to develop a history of an independently functioning economy and monetary system with a budget deficit of less than 3%. Then there's the issue of the border with England. It'll likely take a decade or two.

It'll get vetoed by Spain and maybe other states with independence movements so literally no chance even after all of that.

Still. Tartan passports.

 

[redcogs]

I remember getting bitten by a midge on my dick on a holiday in Scotland when I was a kid. Itched like buggery.

No idea how it got through my clothing - maybe they have big fangs.

unless you were 'excused shorts'

 

[existentialist]

I will so I don't care about the rest of you cunts

Independent Scotland would base citizenship on current Irish model

Plans, unveiled by Humza Yousaf, include significantly reducing application fees

www.theguardian.com

But which of you will?

My father was Scottish, although he was born in Dover (his dad was a soldier). Not sure how tenuous the connection can be. My grandparents on his side will have had impeccable Scottish credentials, though.