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[ToraToraTora]

//“vote SNP for Scotland to become an independent country”.// - so that's their no 1 policy. Nothing else matters. Time for the famous 10 then, perhaps an SNP supporter would like to have a go at some of them, I live in hope:

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.

[Mozz71]

Just a question on you wording in the original post Tora- you say "that's their number one policy, nothing else matters". 

 

Why does nothing else matter? Surely the have plenty of other policies? A main policy isn't an only policy.

God forbid a party should be elected to government on the basis of one policy, and one policy only *cough*johnson*cough*brexit*cough*

[ToraToraTora]

Yes but they said in an interview that their other policies are largely predicated on what they call "independence".

[Mozz71]

Then in that case, do those post-independence policies address any of your "famous ten"?

[ToraToraTora]

no, they talk mostly about doing things they say they can't do because of the hated English. Free everything of course, more dosh for their NHS and getting shot of nukes, net zero, north sea gas and oil etc. A reporter did ask about joining the EUSSR but Swinney just did what all politicians do with akward questions, waffled on about vagaries of being an "independent nation".

[newmodarmy]

There's no need foranyoneto answer them. It's similar to Brexit- people make their own mind up ( maybe just on a principle rather than on detail) and vote accordingly. Noone ever has to justify their vote.

[ToraToraTora]

Fair enough but those are the sorts of things they'll be asked about in any campaign and also the things that they should have answers to before even considering leaving the UK. No point in winning then having no clue how to proceed.

[sandyRoe]

Breathes there the man, with soul so dead,
Who never to himself hath said,
This is my own, my native land!
Whose heart hath ne’er within him burn’d,
As home his footsteps he hath turn’d,
From wandering on a foreign strand!
If such there breathe, go, mark him well;
For him no Minstrel raptures swell;
High though his titles, proud his name,
Boundless his wealth as wish can claim;
Despite those titles, power, and pelf,
The wretch, concentred all in self,
Living, shall forfeit fair renown,
And, doubly dying, shall go down
To the vile dust, from whence he sprung,
Unwept, unhonour’d, and unsung.

Without liberty other considerations are as nought.

[ToraToraTora]

Amen!

[Ellipsis]

See New Judge here:

https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/News/Question1871844-3.html

I'm unconcerned about how good or bad it is. All I wanted was for the UK to leave the EU and we did. That was my only consideration and that's why I'm over the moon.

That is how the SNP think about Scotland leaving the UK. I don't agree with them, by the way, but it's a principle - nothing to do with the practicalities ...