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Old 14-08-2020, 12:47   #3095
jfman
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Re: Will Scotland Leave the UK?

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Originally Posted by 1andrew1 View Post
Wheeling out an ATM in the sky does not counter the sovereignty argument which has a strong emotional appeal. If the Scottish people have survived the Global Financial Crisis of 2008/9 and the Covid Crisis of 2020/1, they can survive devolution.
The cash argument is a big red herring. If it wasn’t cost beneficial for England to govern Scotland they wouldn’t be so vociferously opposing independence.

You’d have statements on the side of a bus. Scotland goes and we will give £350m a week to the NHS. The population of England will be delighted. Scotland goes off to carve its own path.

Oddly that’s not how the discussion plays out.
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