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Originally Posted by jfman
Maybe they struggle to highlight the economic madness because it simply isn't economic madness and much of the oft-trotted out lines are easily discredited based on Scotland doing nothing.
You didn't find the economic argument compelling when it came to Brexit, so I'm unsure why you are pegging your hopes on an argument you readily discounted for a subject you don't care about.  |
Many of the remainer arguments levelled against Brexit must also be levelled against Scexit. Those arguments may have different answers, but those answers must be given. And the different scale and balance of the Scottish economy compared to the UK as a whole is highly relevant.
To take but one recent example: there have been many complaints about 73 page documents exporters have to present at Dover before they can put their lorry on the ferry to France. Has anyone seriously considered how the Scottish economy will fare if every lorry trying to go any further than Gretna or Berwick has to do the same thing? Scottish business is proportionately much more exposed to this sort of thing than the UK as a whole.
Has anyone put any thought into how Scottish business would access the EU market, even if Scotland were to join the EU independently, given that it is almost totally dependent on road transport through England in order to get there?
Scotland could “make different choices” about its economy is wholly inadequate as an answer to these pressing practical questions for which there are now real-world examples.