"Nicola Sturgeon will be talking to the EU not about ways of making Brexit less painful for the UK, which is what has been ruled out, but about ways in which Scotland could remain within the EU."

Juncker has banned any contact - what is it about this that you have difficult in understanding? Her appointment with The President of the EU Parliament goes ahead, the more important meeting with the President of the EU Council has been cancelled as the President of the EU Council and Juncker consider it inappropriate.

Also cannot understand why it is so difficult for you, Nicola Sturgeon and Alex Salmond to grasp the factual reality that Scotland is not a member of the EU, that the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the sovereign entity that is actually an EU Member State, has voted in a nation-wide referendum to leave the EU. Now you either support democracy and abide by the will of the majority of people in the UK and support their decision, or you admit that the only votes you are prepared to accept are those that go your way and the will of the people can go hang.