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Originally Posted by nomadking
The Billions that England sends north of the border must really harm the Scots. 
How did the Royal Bank of Scotland work out?
Still waiting for examples of where England is blocking Scottish entrepreneurial spirit, compared to England itself. A lot of the business rules and regulations are set by the Scots themselves. |
The calculations by which England claims to be a net contributor to Scotland are unsurprisingly English.
Unsure what the Royal Bank of Scotland have to do with anything. A public limited company enjoying the excesses of capitalism, requiring state intervention, isn’t something any state trying to run a reputable financial sector would encourage. It’s entirely possible that appropriate regulation within Scotland would have prevented many of the problems, or caused the Bank to relocate to exploit weaker regulatory systems (England).
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Originally Posted by Chris
It’s all about the macroeconomic levers Scotland doesn’t have, and which separatists cheerfully assert Scotland would pull more effectively than the U.K does. Most separatist rhetoric boils down to exceptionalism. Scotland would do better because Scotland is better. It just is, and it is therefore quite logical that everything that goes wrong is horrible cancerous England’s fault.
To be fair even for many Scottish separatists that’s an extreme position. I’m beginning to think Jfman is a bot, run by Wingnuts Over Scotland.
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You, frankly, know that’s nonsense. Considering the UK is £2 trillion in debt I’m not sure it’s “exceptionalism” for people in Scotland to think that they could have more adequately spent their share or borrowed less in the long run by making better economic investments in the past.
The fact the devolved government cannot borrow
at all means it’s living essentially year on year with minimal capability to instigate long term projects. Meanwhile London gets HS2 and Crossrail.
It’s hardly an extreme position to consider that Conservative governments act in their interests in London. Yet consistently Scottish voters did not vote for said Governments. Your claim, ludicrously, is that England knows better than Scotland what is good for Scotland. A position it would have claimed over every other country in the Empire yet not a single one has came crawling back begging for rule from London. A claim that I’d personally like Red Card or a distinguished unionist to say as it’d be the final nail in the coffin.