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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
However you want to look at this, we are financing Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. That’s my point.
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No independent analysis supports that as independent countries they couldn't be better off. Plus England would in your theory save money. Win win.
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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
Very different choices, jfman. All those Lefties in both Scotland and Wales won’t like it one bit if they were to realise that their public services had to be grossly curtailed to fund independence.
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Speculative at best
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Originally Posted by Chris
'We would make different choices' is just the standard cop-out answer. There are oodles of examples of countries of similar size and resource as Scotland or Wales where a more specific starting point could be made by way of comparison (though various other things like social attitudes and population health must be accounted for). I'd be interested to hear your views on which different choices, at work in other places, would work for Scotland.
I propose not indulging the Welsh angle any further in this thread incidentally - it's beyond silly.
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We would make different choices is hardly a cop out answer. It's the very essence of how, and where, countries promote investment. Do we spend hundreds of millions on Japanese trains or do we spend more to build them here, recognising the consequent economic value of those jobs in their communities bringing subsequent value to their communities?
Do we build high speed train networks or high speed broadband networks?
These are at the very core of economic development.