Brexit is about to get real. Yet we are nowhere near ready

[Denzil_DC]

2. There's also the factor that the UK's public attitude's been utterly obnoxious (thanks, Boris & co.)

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That doesn't help in diplomacy and negotiations, and the country has very few, if any, friends and allies in Europe to help soften the blow.

Scotland, on the other hand, has made enormous diplomatic efforts since the Brexit referendum to explore ways of staying in (or re-joining) the single market, if not the EU itself, and is getting encouraging noises from many quarters, some of them unexpected - like the Spanish, who contrary to myth, are going out of their way not to equate the Scottish situation with that of Catalonia. (I don't think we're under any illusions that attitudes towards Scotland among leading EU figures may be at least partly driven by a desire to stick it to May et al. and the rUK if Brexit goes ahead, but we do want EU membership if we can get it, and independence looks like being the only way to do that as things stand.)