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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
But that isn’t the argument, Hugh. The argument is that there is a huge hole in the budget with the absence of the Barnett formula and all the other reasons set out above, and the SNP appear to have no idea how to fill it.
No-one is doubting that the Scots could survive on their own, but they will be much poorer as a result. The Scottish electorate need to know that before they enter their crosses.
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They probably wouldn’t, but they will have to pay a lot of extra dole money with all those people they’d throw out of work. And you seem to forget, Scotland will have to fund its own defence, albeit a non-nuclear defence.
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Wonder if someone will blunder along and say what about our oil conveniently ignoring that a lot of the gas fields are in what would be English territorial waters and that even in the boom years it only exceeded the Barnett formula payments a couple of times
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Originally Posted by Mad Max
The hatred some Scots have for England drives their support for the SNP imo.
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I'd say most or a sizeable majority of Scots dislike England intensely it's the reason I'd be delighted to see them forge their own future on their own, imagine how nimble a country of that size will be