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Originally Posted by 1andrew1
The FT has costed Scottish independence at £1,765 per person per year. But didn't they say something similar about Brexit? 
https://www.ft.com/content/ff6c0f6b-...a-878e2260cf3e
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The difference between the UK covering the cost of £1,765 per person, and Scotland doing so, ought to be obvious. The UK economy as a whole is broad and dynamic enough to cope. It has been designed to be that way by generations of policy choices. Scotland does not have that depth or breadth within itself ... there’s no reason why it should, because its economy is not designed to operate independently. It is designed as a component of the UK economy. That’s not a failing, it’s the whole point of the union (Scotland being effectively bankrupt in 1707).
Converting Scotland’s economic activity into ‘an economy’ would be a difficult and expensive process, causing a great deal of hardship to the very people presently in thrall to the SNP’s seductive promises of freebies for all.