I agree totally, and also know a number of Yessers who did not want the EU and see independence as a way out of it quickly. The SNP is a spectrum of political views and, upon independence, would split rapidly (at least that is the analysis I have been given). I don't see negotiations on joining the EU then being possible - far more likely, I think, is a Norway-type model of close association without membership.
My personal preference would have been indy, but in a loose Northern/Arctic Alliance (Scand, Iceland, Greenland...) acting as a buffer against the EU extremism. The worst would be indy and still in the EU - what would be the point?
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