Ludo Thierry:
On the 31st Jan Scotland loses the services of 3 excellent YES/REMAIN supporting MEPs (there are also 3 ukanian types who shuffle off) due to Brexit. Interestingly, Scotland may yet acquire a NEW MEP based here. I discovered today that the wonderful Prof. Clara Ponsati (St. Andrews Uni) is due to be appointed as an ‘extra’ MEP for Catalonia due to the redistribution of MEP numbers to the remaining EU states following the exit of ukanian MEPs. (Spain is due a further 5 MEPs – one of whom should be going to the Catalonia list (where Prof. Ponsati is next in line) – but we all know what tricks might be applied to stop this).
The assumption of a seat in the European Parliament could be highly relevant given Prof. Ponsati’s current legal process against ‘Treason’ charges (ain’t the world wacky?!) for her role in organising the democratic Catalonian Referendum. It might also be hugely useful to have a Scotland based MEP who can help keep Scotland’s hope and intention to remain attached to our common European home at the forefront of Europe’s thinking. Link and snippet below:
https://www.expatica.com/uk/catalan-separatist-ponsati-seeking-immunity-as-mep/
When Britain leaves the European Union on January 31, new members of the European Parliament (MEPs) will be installed on February 1 from the remaining member states to fill empty seats.
Following the May 2019 European Parliament elections, Ponsati is due to take one of the five seats redistributed to Spain, as an incoming MEP for the Together for Catalonia party.
“If Clara becomes a member of the European Parliament, then she is entitled to the immunity that is attached, the legal immunity which means that she has a right to take the seat,” said Anwar (her solicitor).
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
There was an interview on Good Morning Scotland with her lawyer, Aamer Anwar. In the course of the interview he made the point about how people here would react if UK police attacked people in Scotland seeking to vote in a referendum as the Spanish police had done in Catalunya. Immediately – i.e with barely a pause – Gillian Marles tried to interrupt but he spoke over her and his point came across clearly. She made a second attempt towards the end of his statement, but he had almost completed it and the point had been made. Her next question had no connection whatsoever to what he had just said.
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Scotland and Catalunya are completely distinct Constitutionally.
Over 90% of Catalans (only 87% in Madrid) voted for the 1978 Constitution. Catalans including Communists took part in drafting it.
Article 1
subject to the rule of law, which advocates as the highest values of its
legal order, liberty, justice, equality and political pluralism.
whom emanate the powers of the State.
monarchy.
Article 2
The Constitution is based on the indissoluble unity of the Spanish
nation, the common and indivisible country of all Spaniards; it recognises and guarantees the right to autonomy of the nationalities and
regions of which it is composed, and the solidarity amongst them all.
UK/Scotland are formed by Treaty, not by written Constitution,
hence Scotland had in 2014 a legal referendum.
In UK Westminster has self-declared sovereignty.
In Spain the PEOPLE are sovereign by CONSTITUTION.
Hence, only the PEOPLE of Spain are capable of changing the Constitution to Spanish Divisibility, not the Catalan parliament, nor the National Parliament, nor the PM nor the King.
Clara, an educated Spanish woman, a Catalan was, and is, well aware of that. She allows Scots to conflate Catalunya, a devolved Constituent part of Spain, with Scotland a country in Union by treaty.
THEY ARE COMPLETELY DISTINCT.
Nothing I have written diminishes the wish for independence, it simply shows the difference in roots to achieve it. Scotland CAN achieve Independence via the Scottish Ballot Box, Catalunya needs to use Spanish Ballot Box, modify the Constitution, then proceed.
11 European Countries are Indivisible by Constitution, France and Italy for example. I expect, and hope, that independent Scotland will be indivisible by Constitution too. Thus preventing the catastrophic partitions done by Westminster in Ireland, India-Pakistan and indeed Israel- Palestine.
It disappoints me that Junts has wasted its current political influence to pursue Money and Amnesty, but it is a distinctly Right Wing Party.
Their previous Leader Jordi Pujol now touched with a HUGE Financial and Political Corruption, hence the party name change was a Fan of Thatcher.
Barcelona bajo la ‘era Thatcher’ – El Periódico (elperiodico.com)
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