Thread: Will Scotland Leave the UK?
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Old 24-08-2020, 15:33   #3256
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Re: Will Scotland Leave the UK?
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Originally Posted by OLD BOY View Post
Just for a start, then, where's the money coming from to replace the Barnett formula, declining North Sea oil revenues, the cost of setting up all those new government departments, the contribution to NATO, the loss lf industry back to England? That's a lot of expense (and that isn't the half of it), and other than jfman's solution to tax the hell of of....someone... and tax breaks for business (so out of character for the SNP) I really do not see any light at the end of that tunnel for the Scots - in fact, the tunnel will get even darker.

Ordinary Scots will really pay the price for separation, and I dare say the English will get the blame for that as well!

I want to see Scotland remain in the UK because we are all stronger for it, but Scotland going it alone under an SNP government risks reducing them to third world status.
I'm not making the case for independence so fortunately I don't have to do the maths.

But if each Scot is even a grand or two poorer that's not third world standards by any stretch of the imagination! Good case situation it's level with Japan. https://www.worldometers.info/gdp/gdp-per-capita/
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