NICOLA Sturgeon has insisted Scottish independence will bear no resemblance to the “mess” of the Brexit process.
Speaking at a campaign event in Dundee, the First Minister suggested Westminster will be "engulfed by Brexit for years to come" as she urged Scots to take the future into their own hands.
The SNP leader also warned that even if Brexit is stopped, there is no guarantee Scotland will not have policies imposed on it by a Conservative Westminster government.
Sturgeon said those who pushed to leave the EU did not plan for negotiations or for what the UK would look like after a deal was struck.
"I can understand why proponents of Brexit want to draw the analogy between the Brexit process and independence,” she said.
"As much as I oppose Brexit, there was nothing inevitable about the mess that the Brexit process became.
"That was down to the fact that those who advocated Leave in the referendum didn't put any detail of what it would mean in practice – of the trade-offs and compromises that would be required to implement that – before people."
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The First Minister accused former prime minister Theresa May of "putting down contradictory red lines" in an attempt to "pull the wool over people's eyes" after the June 2016 vote on EU membership.
She also pointed out the Scottish Government put its proposals forward before the first vote on independence in 2014 by publishing a White Paper.
"Not everyone agreed with that, there was vigorous debate around it, but it was there for people to judge,” Sturgeon said.
"We were very upfront, at times very controversially, about some of the compromises and trade-offs."
The First Minister said the currency union, an agreement between Scotland and the rest of the UK to keep the pound, was one example of a compromise.
Former chancellor George Osborne publicly ruled out the possibility of a currency union with an independent Scotland before the vote in 2014.
The First Minister said: "We had done the planning and we will do so again. Let us not allow the charlatans who will tell people that constitutional change has to be that way.
"It was and is that way with Brexit because of their dishonesty and their lack of planning.
"These are mistakes the independence campaign didn't make in 2014 and will not make in the future."
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The First Minister also told the crowds that, regardless of whether Brexit is stopped in Westminster, "there is no guarantee that we don't have other policies imposed on us by a Tory government".
She added: "Brexit has brought into sharp relief this fundamental question: if we want Scotland to become the country that we know it can be, then how do we best secure that?
"Do we allow people like Boris Johnson, Nigel Farage or even Jeremy Corbyn to determine Scotland's path and what type of country we are?
"Or do we take that future into our own hands?"
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