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Scots: Why Do You Think Independence Would Be Beneficial To Scotland?
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With Nicola chomping at the bit for a second Scottish Independence referendum, clearly supported by many Scots here, I’ve yet to see any of them offer a rational explanation for that support. Such a move has to be economically damaging to Scotland at the very least. For the benefit of those who cannot see the sense in it, can anyone explain it please?
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Here are 10 reasons to support Scottish independence : https://www. independents cotland.org/ articles/142 70/why-suppo rt-scottish- independence .htm Of course, the site is pro-independ ence, so hardly surprising! However, if you look at the menu on the right, they also have a similar page entitled "Why be against Scottish independence ?" And, a...
15:15 Sun 02nd Feb 2020
// jim: "Explain to yourself why you wanted to leave the EU, replace Brussels with Westminster, and you'll be more or less where you need to be to understand the Scottish Independence movement. " - you may have a point if the EUSSR was continually pumping money into the UK, Instead we were a net contributor to a club that we had very little control over. //
Leaving aside the last part (why *should* we have any more control over the EU than should be expected from a country that is only one in 28?) I agree that the rest is a key difference. Still, I would have thought that support for leaving the EU would still have been fairly high even if we weren't a net contributor. Maybe not as high, but surely comparable. Didn't the desire to leave run deeper than that?
Leaving aside the last part (why *should* we have any more control over the EU than should be expected from a country that is only one in 28?) I agree that the rest is a key difference. Still, I would have thought that support for leaving the EU would still have been fairly high even if we weren't a net contributor. Maybe not as high, but surely comparable. Didn't the desire to leave run deeper than that?
I wish Scotland to be an independent nation as do many Scots. I wish folk, particularly the English, could separate Independence from the SNP party. Not all those who want independence support the SNPs. I believe Scotland would benefit from remaining a member of the EU. At no time have I said it would be an easy transition, but at least if mistakes were made they would be ours, and not those foisted on us by Westminster. I don't think as things stand that there is a level playing field and England always comes first. Even the BBC news mainly features figures from England/Wales. Couldn't count how many times have I heard "The Queen of England". Considering the contempt that Scotland is held in by many on here, why are you so against us leaving?
Not quite. She is the second Elizabeth to reign in what is now the UK. This was put to bed over a 100 years ago on the accession of Edward VII, when it was decided that in the case of a discrepancy the higher number would prevail. Thus, if we ever have a King James he will be James VIII and not III.
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