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.....perhaps it's a good time to see if any S N P types have any answers to the famous 10 questions regarding Scotland potentially leaving the UK, never have yet but hope springs eternal.....
1) How will you replace the funding you get from England?
2) Are you happy to continue using the pound but have no control of it?
3) How will you service your part of the national debt?
4) How will you stop the inevitable exodus to England once the decision has been made?
5) Will you continue to offer free prescriptions, university etc ?
6) …if so how far are you prepared to raise taxes for those that remain?
7) How will you attract investment to, what will have to be a high taxation area?
8) How will you replace and fund the parts of the UK infrastructure that you now take for granted? Eg military, police, public transport?
9) are you prepared to adopt the EURO as a condition of joining the EUSSR?
10) Are you prepared to construct a border as a condition of joining the EUSSR?
The SNP have never addressed any of the above perhaps our resident "independence" supporters would like to have a go.
1) How will you replace the funding you get from England?
2) Are you happy to continue using the pound but have no control of it?
3) How will you service your part of the national debt?
4) How will you stop the inevitable exodus to England once the decision has been made?
5) Will you continue to offer free prescriptions, university etc ?
6) …if so how far are you prepared to raise taxes for those that remain?
7) How will you attract investment to, what will have to be a high taxation area?
8) How will you replace and fund the parts of the UK infrastructure that you now take for granted? Eg military, police, public transport?
9) are you prepared to adopt the EURO as a condition of joining the EUSSR?
10) Are you prepared to construct a border as a condition of joining the EUSSR?
The SNP have never addressed any of the above perhaps our resident "independence" supporters would like to have a go.
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They are perfectly valid points that need addressing.
05:51 Fri 27th Aug 2021
nobs: "the POLITICIANS need a plan. Abers do not. " - so they blindly support something with no understanding of what they are supporting? Right oh! I agree that is what they are doing but I'd hope that the destiny of their country would be more important to them than that and that they'd seek to understand and have at least some idea about questions like those above.
We voted to leave the EU in June 2016, and 4 years later we still didn’t know how the mechanics of leaving would work.
No one voted for the fudge which is the NI protocol. Certainly voters in NI didn’t. It is doubtful anyone would have voted leave if the had seen the NI protocol deal before voting.
So Scotland can vote on the principal of Independence without having every minute detail worked out beforehand.
No one voted for the fudge which is the NI protocol. Certainly voters in NI didn’t. It is doubtful anyone would have voted leave if the had seen the NI protocol deal before voting.
So Scotland can vote on the principal of Independence without having every minute detail worked out beforehand.
Roadman, Scottish people get a lot of things, prescriptions for example, free, whereas the rest of us have to pay. Free prescriptions, etc., in Scotland are paid for by the rest of us. That’s what TTT means by ‘funding’. Once they’re independent that funding will no longer be available to them so the question is where is the money going to come from to replace that funding?
// Free prescriptions, etc., in Scotland are paid for by the rest of us. //
No they are not.
A proportion of all the UK tax raised comes from Scotland’s tax payers. The UK Treasury allocates how much goes to Scotland. Once the Scottish Government have it in their coffers, they can spend it how they like. If the English are envious that Scotland priorities free prescriptions, then they should lobby their English MPs for the same.
No they are not.
A proportion of all the UK tax raised comes from Scotland’s tax payers. The UK Treasury allocates how much goes to Scotland. Once the Scottish Government have it in their coffers, they can spend it how they like. If the English are envious that Scotland priorities free prescriptions, then they should lobby their English MPs for the same.
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