Come on Saint Charles Owl!!! You ARE being a tad disingenuous re that dismissive response!!! Jim listed just a few of the 'good things' that the EU has attained or influenced within the UK and a lotta this stuff was drowned out by all the shameless RW scaremongering that was uttered by the likes of Johnson and Farage and others. I'd turn your insinuation on it's head and say I never perceived a persuasive argument to leave and that's from a Scottish perspective!! And Devongone, all I'd say to you is come to Scotland and study the culture and society that have evolved down the years, interlinked with the multi-culturalism that is embedded within it. We are still closely linked to Europe far more than you realise!! It's a historical fact and long may that association continue as well as an amicable association with our UK neighbours. The remain campaign was a dud, a misrepresentation by people who should've provided the stronger argument to remain in the UK!! Not so in Scotland and the end result, brexit, IMO was the wrong one anyway and millions n millions of people within our population strongly concur with that view that the 'UK ship is being sailed off course'!! Nicola Sturgeon is one of those detractors and she has consistently held the same line from July onwards. The debate ultimately centres on either a pro single market stance or being forced out of the EU and a sizeable proportion of our population share the former opinion/option! Perhaps we should've had a mandatory vote for once in the UK, just like Australia and certain other countries, and there's no doubt in my mind that the brexit vote would never have materialised and this whole contentious subject would not be debated at all!! 