Independent Scotland in the EU? #3

Some things to look forward to.

• Queues at the EU customs post at Berwick leading to a traffic tailback on the A1 all the way to Alnwick, if not to the suburbs of Newcastle. 
• Crowds of Scottish shoppers descending on Gateshead Metrocentre and a boom in the north-east. 
• Trains terminating at Berwick as passengers have to disembark and pass through customs control.
• Goods imported from England subject to EU tariffs and extra VAT, and a thriving smuggling industry as people tried to import the bargains purchased on their shopping trips.
• Higher prices for substitute goods imported from mainland Europe due to extra transport costs; it is too far for low cost RoRo movement.
• Value of savings destroyed as Scotland enters the Euro at at realistic rate.
• Great idea - independent Scotland in the EU.