NICOLA Sturgeon has a right cheek.

After months of trying to wreck the UK Brexit referendum decision, she is demanding a new Scottish independence referendum.

If Scotland were to vote to leave the UK, then the Brexit vote percentage in the rest of the UK would be much higher and we could have to leave on terms wrecked by the Scots vote prior to them going.

That remain vote also included expats outside the UK and those in UK dependencies like Gibraltar who have never lived in the UK where 90 per cent were remain.

The idea Nicola could win a new Scottish vote seems like delusion.

The EU already told her they cannot have the UK membership, they would have to apply as a new country which means accepting the Euro as currency. The land border between England and Scotland would be far stronger than between Northern Ireland and the Republic.

That is because of Scotland being close to the EU mainland.

Scottish goods going through England to the Channel Tunnel would be taxed coming into England and on leaving it into France.

Scotland would have to convince France and Germany to pay the EU subsidies that currently come from the UK budget payment.

Unlikely to happen as the EU loses £20 billion that the UK currently pays.

Scotland would also have to take its share of the £1.7 trillion pound national debt.

The EU would be seeking even more fishing waters off Scotland as they lose the UK national waters portion.

The UK will decide fishing quotas in our own waters, Brussels those in Scottish and Irish Republic waters.

Scotland would also lose the UK tax donations and have to fund their own National Health Service (rather than just administer it from Westminster money and any they add) and fund state pensions themselves.

Having done everything possible to destroy the UK economy and disrupt the post Brexit adjustment, Scotland can hardly expect a sweet deal from the UK.

They would also only have six seats in the EU 700 seat parliament (and would not be protected by the UK seats as we would be out), with no seats in the 600 seat UK parliament where they currently have 56.

No chance of protecting Scottish interests.

If Scotland were to leave the UK, they could only prosper as an independent country with strong friendly links to the UK as part of the British Commonwealth, not as a state of the EU ruled by Brussels.

I assume the Scots would quickly see this and reject leaving the UK in order to be part of the EU.

R P Lambeth, Martin Road, Hove