Due to the heavy debt incurred by the Scottish Government, it would not qualify to join the EU – David Coburn

Nicola Sturgeon’s second independence referendum has been given a big blow by a Scottish MEP, as he reveals how Scotland cannot be a member of the EU due to too much debt being incurred by the region.

According to David Coburn the Scottish capital Edinburgh would “suffer with austerity” for years if Ms Sturgeon was granted her independence dream. Citing Greece as an example to Scotland as he explained the suffering Greece went through when the country joined the EU.

He said: “I cannot see why you would want to be part of the European Union as a small nation of Scotland.

“If we were - it won’t happen, it’s not possible - but if we tried to go into the European Union we would have to accept the Euro, which is a collapsing currency.

“And how would we qualify for it? We don’t even have a central bank. We have a £15billion debt created by the SNP. How do we go into a currency with that?

“We would be forced to have austerity max, in the European Union, and look what happened to Greece when they had austerity.

“The Greeks suffered horribly, and at the end of the day their economy was in very bad shape, it destroyed civil society in many ways, do we want that in Scotland?

“Sturgeon is forever bleating on about all this nonsense about, ‘I’m against austerity, I’m against austerity’, well if she is against austerity she can’t want to be in the European Union, because then we would have austerity max. Not a good idea.”

Mr Coburn also vetoed the notion that Scots should be given another vote on independence.

He added: “It’s very simple, we had a referendum on whether Scotland remains as part of Britain.

“They voted overwhelmingly to remain as part of the United Kingdom, knowing that in the future we were having a referendum on Europe.

“When the Euro referendum came through, it was 60 to 40, and that’s with the Scottish Government spending a fortune of tax payers’ money trying to brainwash the Scots into fear about the European Union.

“I think if it hadn’t have been for that it would have been a lot closer.

“I don’t think Scots are particularly keen on the European Union, any more than anybody else. I think it was all operation fear operated by the First Minister.

“If you look at it, more Scots voted to Remain in the United Kingdom, than voted to Remain in the European Union, when you look at the two referenda, so you have to ask yourself, what do the Scots really want?

“I think they wanted out of the European Union and Remain in the UK.”

The Ukip MEP finished by claiming that the Scottish people do not like the EU and predicted another independence rejection if there was another vote.

He said: “People in Scotland do not like the European Union, they might be frightened of going it alone. That’s Sturgeon’s operation fear which was created. In reality they don’t like it, but they might be fearful to leave. 

“I think she would lose, and she would lose bigger than last time. People are fed up to their back teeth of being offered another vote. People have businesses, people have jobs, people want to keep their jobs, and this is not helping those people.”