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Blair and Brown's policies were not made 'as Scotsmen' for the Scottish, and also not made in the context of an Independent Scotland, so what's your point exactly?
No, they were made for the UK, in the context of the UK. That does not stop some Scots from believing or claiming that they were made for England in the context of England. (That they were made in a UK context, including Scotland, further weakens the notion that iScottish policies would inevitably be different.)
You make a huge presumption about Scottish foreign policy, based on what? The desire for self-determination is not akin to telling your neighbours 'to fuck off', especially when it makes no economic or political sense, so what are you really wanting to say?
I've told you. That Ali could have picked a better example. That's all.
Scotland currently has neither the diplomatic service or control to be fully international in a meaningful sense. Other countries negotiate with the foreign office. Which is at Westminster.
An independent Scotland would have to develop them, and fast. Plans will have been drawn up. Do you really think that one state can use the political offices of a different state, or that they would want to?
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Is any more like to be better than. Skoblesque dialect. Who is telling you not to write things? Are you feeling set upon? I'm just quoting your own words, which display an enormously self-evident amount of prejudice.
Tony Blair spending a few months in Scotland as a baby, then being educated at one of the most exclusive private schools in the UK that happens to be in Edinburgh, does not a Scottish person make, but if it makes you feel better. Blair and Brown's policies were not made 'as Scotsmen' for the Scottish, and also not made in the context of an Independent Scotland, so what's your point exactly?
You make a huge presumption about Scottish foreign policy, based on what? The desire for self-determination is not akin to telling your neighbours 'to fuck off', especially when it makes no economic or political sense, so what are you really wanting to say?
Scotland currently has neither the diplomatic service or control to be fully international in a meaningful sense. Other countries negotiate with the foreign office. Which is at Westminster.