Of course we'd welcom Scotland in, if only to stick it to the UK. Plus, the EU doesn't fund policing or education so that irrelevent.
I'm all in favour of the EU continuing to rush headlong into its own destruction. On the off-chance that Scottish independence ever happened, it would presumably inspire the Catalonians and every other separatist movement to start (covertly, at the least) pushing for leaving the EU, after seeing Scotland's successful example. (Somewhat ninja'd by smjjames).
Not that I think it's at all likely. Anyone who still thinks Scotland can live off North Sea oil really hasn't been paying attention the last few years.
And GrimPortent, speaking of their 'mandate' - the SNP don't have a majority anymore after the resurgence of the Tories. And every other party (bar the Greens, kek) opposes independence. So can they even claim a mandate at this point?
They have 46.5% of the constituency vote and 42% of the regional vote, slightly more than double the share of any other party in Scotland and are running in a system that was actually designed to prevent single party governments in the first place*. Yes they have a mandate as the single largest political group in Scotland. They
On top of that the pro-Independence Greens have 6% of the regional vote, mostly from SNP voters who sympathize with them and wanted to give them a bump, pushing the pro-Independence party vote share to 48% regional.
Or to put it another way the SNP have a higher vote share in Scotland than the Conservatives have UK wide, so the SNP mandate in Holyrood is greater than the Conservatives one in Westminster is.
*The regional vote system was put in place to compensate for the winner takes all nature of FPTP, and allows an MSP to be voted into Holyrood based on the total share of the regional vote the party got with a massive penalty applied to parties that did well in the actual constituencies. That the SNP got a majority in it at all before was more or less unforeseeable.