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Originally Posted by 1andrew1
Economics doesn't always work at the ballot box. The heart often conquers the head. Besides, the Republic of Ireland has shown a small country can end up thriving outside the UK and I don't see it clamouring to re-join.
Boris's solution is a bit of an unknown. Is it to play up the UK roll-out of vaccinations? Is it to build a tunnel to Northern Ireland? Is Labour's more devolution? Perhaps to give Scotland many of the benefits of independence but still nominally within the UK?
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Ireland is a good case in point. It suffered a generation of grinding poverty post separation and only an eye-watering sum of ECUs has brought it up to where it is now. But Ireland benefited from EU largesse at a time when there were only around a dozen members. All that yummy free money is being hoovered up by ex-communist Eastern European states now. If the SNP thinks it can swap subsidies mostly generated in London and the southeast of England for those purloined and redistributed by Brussels, they’re sorely mistaken.