"couldn't care less whether, or not, you accept what has been stated by many who are experts on the EU ..."

The thing is, there are 'experts' on both sides saying completely opposite things, and each side wants to believe only its own experts. The fact is nobody knows - whatever happens will be determined more by politics than legal opinions, not least because there is no legal precedent. It will likely be a fudge - yes independent Scotland probably will stay/be admitted into the EU (but this is by no means a foregone conclusion since it will depend on the political agendas of a lot of different countries and institutions) but we cannot know what they might have to concede to achieve it.

There seems to be a lot of uncertainty and risk for the doubtful privilege of exchanging one set of lying bastard politicians for another - even if they will be all your own lying bastards. And if they end up kow-towing to Brussels rather than London, can you say you're independent?