It's frustrating trying to talk to someone who just appears to be spouting inaccurate propaganda
Posted without a hint of irony 😂
You seem to be saying that the Labour party, Conservative party and Reform party shouldn't be allowed to operate / have MPs in Scotland? Is that right? Because they're headquartered in and have the majority of their MPs in England?
No. This is not at all what I am saying, and I'm not sure how you can possibly have drawn this conclusion. It is somewhat odd though, that a political party headquartered in, say for arguments' sake, Poland, would not be able to field candidates in Scotland, but one in England can.
The point I was making is that English based parties have predominantly English-based representation in the Commons, so English issues dominate, and since English parties enforce the Whip to vote along party lines, we have to watch the ridiculous spectacle of Scottish constituency MPs repeatedly voting directly in conflict with Scottish interests, and practically none of them ever have the spine to call this out for what it is (honourable mention to Brian Leishman).
It's a clear example of one of the practical ways that your claim Scots have more say in the running of Scotland that the English do England is total nonsense, because Scotland returns MPs representing these English parties, who are then whipped to vote along the lines of what suits their English party and not what suits the constituency and country they are supposed to represent. The contrast between Labour's pre-2024 electioneering re Grangemouth, what has happened to Grangemouth since, and the excuses which have been trotted out, and what has happened with English-based industries facing similar predicaments couldn't be more stark, and it's a glaring, obvious example of why English parties will always prioritise English matters and the English electorate, and why Scots are monumentally stupid to encourage this by electing members who represent English parties.
As far as the EU is concerned - as has been repeatedly explained on this thread (which you have apparently not bothered to read) - Scotland, were it to become independent, is nowhere near satisfying the requirements to apply to join the EU
Less than 10 years on from actually being a part of the EU
It really begs the question how the divergence can be so sudden and so strident, and how those with their hands on the levers can be so intransigent.
People who make the "but everything is Scotland is shit therefore change should be off the agenda" arguments don't seem to realise these points are entirely self-defeating.
It is far easier to envisage a future where the UK becomes substantially closer to the EU
Is it though?
Perhaps it should be borne in mind that the EU is not particularly enamoured of the "UK" right now, since it bent over backwards to please the UK, gave the UK inordinately preferential terms, and the "UK" still told the EU to ram it, but not only that, the people who orchestrated and drove much of this, are still a very prominent part of frontline UK politics, indeed, until very recently one of the biggest charlatans and EU-sceptics of the lot looked a dead cert to be the UK's PM post the next GE.
So no, YOU might think it's easy to "envisage", but I don't believe it is, remotely, from the EU's perspective, because right now I see no reason at all why the EU would consider hopping back into bed with the "UK", while the UK is still apparently enamoured of the folk who drove that split in the first place.