Oh good, Scottish independence a step closer. Let's hope they do it without raping the rest of the UK for cash.
Oh good, Scottish independence a step closer. Let's hope they do it without raping the rest of the UK for cash.
How would it ever work - we own their financial sector. We could crash it and effectively bankrupt them at independance?
Cut them off and send them into the sea!
I love a rational discussion in the morning.
What would the new scotland do with all its regiments - they'd have way too many. etc. etc.
Its a serious question though - its one thing to consider independance but how would it ever be done - the two countries are so entangled it would take years to work out and neither side would ever be happy.
Would scotland join the EU and the Euro - would it be able to satisfy the financial tests to join. Would england block its application because they were unhappy with the settlement?
What would the new scotland do with all its regiments - they'd have way too many. etc. etc.
Being Scottish i think it would be a stupid idea to break away, for everyone involved
I also hate this whole yeah we support you, you get all your money from us, as if its a country that just all on the dole.
It couldnt happen realisitically, someone mentioned the military, thats a great example, a large amount of the infantry in the UK is Scottish, so the English army would be massively reduced which meant they couldnt support wars with America which will have a massive impact in other areas.
And what about Faslane? thats a massive base for the south to lose, and the SAS? nearly two thirds of the SAS are Scottish, do we disband them?
I live in London, does that mean no more Irn Bru in the shops? or will it be really expensive? its bad enough not having decent square sausages
what about all the money that pours out of aberdeen though? All the gas and oil goes through there. That's probably enough to pay for the entire country?
Two-thirds of the SAS are Scottish? Really? Never heard that one before. All the military stuff (including Faslane) is a red herring; Scotsmen without an army would stroll across the border to join the English army in exactly the same way that Irishmen do to this very day (14% of recruits to the British Army in 2008 were from the ROI). As for Faslane, all that would happen is that the RN would lease it from Scotland for a period until they could move south (like the Treaty ports the RN kept in Ireland until the 30s), or the SNP would declare Scotland nuclear free (and lose a load of jobs they could ill-afford to see go) and the RN would move south even more quickly on the promise of new jobs for Englishmen.
It's bad enough that the devolved governments spend all our money as it is.
London pays all the bills, live with it.
Interesting that SNP support is absent in the two biggest cities and that whole southern strip. Its the highlanders that have voted for em.
Oh for fucks sake Throddy; that's such a ignorant, inaccurate and bigoted load of shite.
When i go home i find the people who want independance are the the folks who scream "i want away fae thay English wankers" and when you ask them how many English have they ever met? when you get "none and i want to keep it that way" it saddens me.
With respect, but that's absolute bollocks.
The central belt of Scotland (from Glasgow to Edinburgh inclusive) is a sea of Yellow, there are some fringe areas in Glasgow (the poverty stricken bits) that stayed Labour.