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Originally Posted by Pierre
...Scotland will not be starting fresh and walking away with a clean slate...
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If Northern Ireland were to rejoin Eire, it would be interesting to see if some of the UK debt was allocated to it. Suggestions I've heard are that it wouldn't be. This could set an interesting precedent if Scotland were to leave too, although I appreciate that some will argue that the union of Scotland with England was different from the union of GB and Ireland.
Could there be financial benefit in the SNP holding fire on independence for a bit for a better long-term financial settlement with ex-GB? They would have to be confident that the majority in favour of independence would be maintained but if jfman's stats by age hold true, this should not be an issue.
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Originally Posted by nomadking
A very large chunk of that "£2 trillion" went to Scotland. Especially if you consider the time before North Sea oil. They are responsible for that. Scots Blair, Brown, and Darling were also responsible for another large chunk of it, ie borrowing from 2002 onwards.
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It's Conservative governments who run the largest budget deficits, Nomad.
http://www.primeeconomics.org/articl...size-of-labour
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Originally Posted by nomadking
England would never be allowed to get a say on this or indeed anything else. We're not allowed democratic control.  |
England got a big say on the EU referendum and is taking Scotland out against its will. But it needs to devolve more power and importantly money regionally. That would certainly help Track and Trace, for example. But this current government like many others is all about centralisation.