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by mrighele 2821 days ago
Rejoining EU would not be automatic. They will have to to again all the accession iter.

EU countries that have issues with independence movements (e.g. Spain w.r.t Catalonia) will not let automatic re-join, because the "You will be out of EU if you secede" is one of the arguments used for saying that secession is a bad move.
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dalore 2821 days ago
Yes they would have to join, but if Brexit happened they are no longer in the EU and so need to leave the UK and then apply for the EU. Wonder if they would need to go through a period of not being in either?

Imagine a hard border on Scotland.

Don't think the monarchy would approve of that much.

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pjc50 2821 days ago
I'm not sure they would be the last holdout in the face of obvious EU condemnation, and it's always possible that the ECJ would rule that they had never left the EU.

Meanwhile, everyone has forgotten the UK's land border with Spain at Gibraltar...

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