How would Scotland even make a case for joining the EU? It would be on it's own until it could generate sufficient surplus to pay the joining fee and thereafter the ongoing and escalating membership fees. It was obvious years ago that pinning hopes on oil revenues was going to lead to disappointment. Tourism that depends on cheap staff from Eastern Europe isn't going to generate the funds needed. NHS, schools, transport infrastructure and emergency services all need investment. No sooner had Donald Dewar managed to get devolved government for Scotland than the priority of the new parliament members was to get a new parliament building. Where the Welsh parliament building came in on budget and schedule, fighting, bickering and idiocy led to a much delayed Scottish parliament building being planted on top of a water source, to a design by a Spanish architect, who likely died due to stress of working on the project, with all the chopping and changing demanded of him. The cost was massively over budget and a huge embarrassment. How is it supposed to represent Scotland and the Scottish people? It doesn't look vaguely Scottish.
Scottish Labour were booted out for arrogance and incompetence. SNP were chosen to replace them. They took that as a sign that the country wanted to leave the Union. Like the EU, they don't like the "wrong answer" in the ballot. Devolved power was never enough for them and yet they expect, nay demand to be trusted to take Scotland out off the Union on the pipe dream of joining the EU and generating another socialist utopia. Oh, sorry Nichola, what did you say? Ahh, it's okay because we won't have technically left the EU?
I wonder how much all those Gaelic signs cost. They are everywhere, even places Gaelic wasn't spoken afaik.
Presumably they want a restoration of feudalism with chosen affiliates and sponsors becoming lairds?