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^^I think the whole finance thing is very interesting, I'd like to see some analysis that looks at the effect of Brexit (-4% per person, per year, permanently) which could be mitigated by re-entry to the single market.
The issue with that of course is that Scotlands largest trading partner is England, with 60% of goods heading there. Introducing a border with England would obviously be a restriction to trade (much as the Brexists deny that this is true for UK-EU, whilst saying it's intolerable for GB-NI).
In the GERS figures Scotland is allocated "share of the North Sea by % of population", be interesting to see the whole North Sea figure allocated to Scotland, rather than the 8% that it's currently set at for the purposes of the figures that are published.
Scottish fishermen would be able to export freely to the EU again in an independent, EU member Scotland (as small as this industry is, it's pretty large if you are a fisherman or live in a coastal village).
My concern about the analysis that we see is that most seem very partisan, and of course no-one dares run one that highlights the effects of being chained to a lunatic, as Scotland is today.