Would a 'Yes' vote in Scotland invalidate the bids for ECML

[NotATrainspott]

Well if it was 1 or 2 % that might work but 10% is a big number cant see them coming back from that.

However, the Ashcroft polling said that a full quarter of those who voted No did so because of the promise of extra powers. If those extra powers fail to properly materialise, and/or there are other serious issues that crop up (e.g. if a court found that TTIP did apply to the NHS in Scotland) a good number of these people will switch to Yes. If we get a Boris-Farage coalition in 2015 that's probably enough to make it neck-and-neck again without any other changes.

 

[Olaf]

The immediate problem has gone aware for now, but the impact of constitutional changes is highly unpredictable, would cause significant legal & commercial disruption, and a disruptive scurry of activity at all levels to adopt & implement changes.

Contracts are legal entities, so it would very much depend on how each one is drawn up; British Government policy was NOT to prepare for Scottish Independence so I doubt that there would be any accommodating clauses that allow a smooth transition. In effect contracts would become invalid at various stages in the disentanglement with the possible result that the legal establishment could not keep-up with the workload let alone management and business/government departmental entities. It would all be rather 'hairy' for those involved. The impact on services would be unpredictable.

We would go through the same sort of problems, to a lesser degree, if we left the EU, or for any of a number of the proposed constitutional/treaty changes put about recently.