Can Scotland Raise £1.5 Billion? (Part 2)

[Quizmonster]

It doesn't have to!
"Patrick Dunleavy, a politics professor at the London School of Economics whose research was used to come up with the figure, said that it overestimated the cost by a factor of 12."
For complete article go to
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/scottish-independence-treasury-figure-for-cost-of-yes-vote-badly-misrepresents-key-research--says-academic-whose-own-work-it-was-based-on-9443603.html

Note that the Treasury’s figure was supposedly based on Dunleavy’s own research. Now, the man himself points out that they got it grotesquely wrong.
As I asked in Part 1 of this topic the other day, has the Treasury ever got a prediction right? I also suggested that nay-sayers will come up with endless scare-stories about Scottish independence and so they have once more.

[jno]

independence might at least provide a chance to leave the UK Treasury behind and found a new school of Scottish Economics, staffed with people who can count.

The scare stories are impressive, aren't they? I expect any day now to be told that an independent Scotland would have to pay to use GMT in its clocks.

[emmie]

so how much will it cost to dismantle, it won't be cheap whichever way they look at it. and it will still have to come out of their coffers, as i hope they aren't expecting others to contribute.

[jno]

it's not the dismantling so much as the setting up (London can do its own dismantling if it wants) but Dunleavy says about a twelfth of the Treasury est8imate.

[emmie]

surely if the want the whole kit and caboodle taken away, its got to be dismantled.

[youngmafbog]

Good, if it's cheaper they might go for it.

[jno]

Scotland would just set up its own public bodies, it wouldn't have to seek permission from the country next door. As a matter of practicality it might hire public servants from London who already work with Scottish affairs, and take over any Scottish buildings they already work in; but it wouldn't have to. Quizmonster can probably give more details on how they might handle it.

[emmie]

dream on, you honestly think that people want to move to Scotland - why do you think so many Scots live here in England, or elsewhere in Britain.

[youngmafbog]

But surely they would have to choose from:

Go home (Scotland)
Get a visa to work in the UK (As non EU citizens they will not be eligible to work here - and they will not be allowed into the EU from day 1)
Denounce their Scottish Nationality and become true Brits.

[youngmafbog]

Personally I find the Scottish like piles, always much better when they go back up.

Scotsmen (and women) are great in Scotland, I love it there. But down here all they do is whine about everything and how great Scotland is. If they are kicked out of the footy then they wont support any other UK team (as other do) but support the opposite side.

Good riddance to them I say.

And lets no forget the cost of rebuilding Hadrian s wall to keep them out.

[emmie]

i found the same sadly, having any number of Scottish friends who would whine on and on about how great Scotland was, but lived down here most of their lives, yet visits to Scotland, i found the people are charming, kind, generous.

[Quizmonster]

Thanks, J. At least you responded to the OP. Not a word from anyone else about the ghastly error made by the Treasury and only the usual scurrilous nonsense from whence one would expect it.