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Originally Posted by jfman

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.

No - it's much deeper than that. Englanders are forked between sod 'em and the Union, a much prised constitutional arrangement that suits this island configuration perfectly. Btw, I'm for the Union - but still, sod 'em.

From their side, they're equally forked. The more intelligent they are (I mean this), the more thinking they'll be doing and will understand the financial strength of the Union. The rest will stick their chests out and cry sod you to us.

Your second paragraph is a useful observation of how politics might turn if an English Scoxit Party was formed!