Originally Posted by
Morticia
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Why the need for any angst?
If the Scots wants Independence .. why not? Nothing wrong with pride in your country. They've a rich history which even a sassenach enjoyed reading about at school.
I do however fail to see how they'd survive alone.
They couldn't survive now without the Barnett formula which generously allows them a disproportionate handout compared to English, Welsh or Irish.
In short, they receive more per head than any other 'nation' within the UK. The favoured 5 million? Hardly poor or second rate citizens now because of it.
Presumably they'd need the same financial safety net from the EU ... and as most Remainers suggest Britain is too small to survive alone as a stand alone country, the Scots would be in dire straights indeed.
Then there's the matter of the 'Lothian Question'
There was talk of adjusting this. Part of a sweetener deal between Cameron and Sturgeon to prevent further Scottish Independence referendums. Has it been adjusted?
Why should English be dictated to by Scots, N. Ireland and Welsh MP's voting on English affairs.
Famous example ... didn't Scottish MP's vote against student fees in their own Scottish Parliament but then come down to England and vote that English students
did had to pay them?
(I'd love someone to tell I've got that wrong as it sounds particularity Machiavellian and hypocritical).
If I wanted to be as bolshie I could demand an English Parliament down at Westminster and English Independence... and bar all other MP's bar the English.
Despite all that I rather like the Scots.