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Originally Posted by OLD BOY

It’s completely different, Mr K. The only handouts we got from the EU were a small part of what we had already paid in. The Scots will be in a much worse position as it is heavily reliant on the Barnett formula.

We didn’t have any additional costs of governing as we already governed ourselves. The Scots have only devolved government and will have to find the money to pay for the cost of running full government services.

Brexit has its costs for us, but the Brexit plan is to recoup and enhance revenue by trading with our new freedoms with the rest of the world. This includes agreeing new trade deals with services (our biggest source of income) included. Remainers claim that the worsened economic conditions we have at present are proof that Brexit doesn’t work. However, so far the pandemic has slowed down the implementation of the manifesto. We have not yet had the bonfire of regulations or the new style trade agreements, for example. We are still bogged down sorting out the EU’s bureaucracy. However, Scotland has no plan that iss of economic benefit in their future independent state that I can see. Certainly none that they have made public.

The only thing in common is the sovereignty issue. But that will not help the Scottish poor.

It is a pity that Mr K has been so shallow, whereas OB has provided a reasoned analysis of what's so bad about Sturgeon's ideas.

Mr K is right, of course, about Boris being a clown. But he is wrong to apply the "united is better" analogy to the UK and the EU for all the reasons previously debated.