Would England be better off independent?

Dear English person,

Funnily enough, up in Scotland, the country which would supposedly get pw3nd by England, we have all 4 Vanguard Class submarines, capable of launching nuclear weapons.

I think we win.

Yours,
Scotland

Scotland does have the North Sea oil

Which has almost run dry.

Scotland couldn't support itself with its own economy (although that could change in a few years as they grow stronger), and wales certainly couldn't.
England isn't even a country at the moment, it doesn't even have its own parliament. Even wales has more, with its assembly.
And do whoever said we get on great with Ireland.... ever heard of the IRA et al? Sure they're not representative of the whole country but it's still an element. And Sinn Fein too...
I wouldn't trust scotland at the moment on its own anyway, especially with the current cover up of the Hollie Greig paedophiles. Scottish officials in a big paedo ring, covering their own asses. Even the BBC is in on it, censoring the story.
To be honest I don't trust any government at the moment, after everything...

But back to the topic, I don't think England would be as successful as a free-standing nation as the UK currently is, on a global scale. However, some form of devolution would be welcomed by me, whether it's an English Assembly (a la Wales and N. Ireland), or even better regional assemblies.

The production of renewable energy in Scotland is an issue that has come to the fore in technical, economic, and political terms during the opening years of the 21st century. The natural resource base for renewables is extraordinary by European, and even global standards. In addition to an existing installed capacity of 1.3 Gigawatts (GW) of hydro-electric schemes, Scotland has an estimated potential of 36.5 GW of wind and 7.5 GW of tidal power, 25% of the estimated total capacity for the European Union and up to 14 GW of wave power potential, 10% of EU capacity. The renewable electricity generating capacity may be 60 GW or more, considerably greater than the existing capacity from all Scottish fuel sources of 10.3 GW.

Which has almost run dry.

And retaining it's more English political traditions such as liberty, more individualism, rather than the collectivist Labour ethos which has a heavy Scottish influence and support from Wales, Scotland, and parts of the North that seem themselves as closer to the former two than London? Look at the political map, it's virtually all Blue and Yellow in the south east and south west.

Dear Haggis Basher,

England would move her submarines back down from Scotland to England.

Yours,
Fair England

Dear Haggis Basher,

England would move her submarines back down from Scotland to England.

Yours,
Fair England

They are the submarines of the UK, Scotland has as much claim as England to them if there's a split.

Plus, you wouldn't win any war anyway, we'll set aboot ye.

They are the submarines of the UK, Scotland has as much claim as England to them if there's a split.

Plus, you wouldn't win any war anyway, we'll set aboot ye.

Does that mean if the UK split the Welsh and the Northern Irish would get a sub too? I'm not being funny, even though we have somewhere to keep it (Milford Haven), I don't think I could live confidently if there was a Welshman in charge of the Welsh nuclear arsenal

Does that mean if the UK split the Welsh and the Northern Irish would get a sub too? I'm not being funny, even though we have somewhere to keep it (Milford Haven), I don't think I could live confidently if there was a Welshman in charge of the Welsh nuclear arsenal

Does that mean if the UK split the Welsh and the Northern Irish would get a sub too? I'm not being funny, even though we have somewhere to keep it (Milford Haven), I don't think I could live confidently if there was a Welshman in charge of the Welsh nuclear arsenal

I don't know if it's just your wording, but to me you're suggesting people in northern England consider themselves more Scottish than English or British.
We don't.

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Scotland produces 3 times the amount of electricity needed to power every building in Scotland. Take a look at just how much of a renewable superpower Scotland is by looking at the 25% statistic in the quote below.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewable_energy_in_Scotland

See here for the rest of our income, which include:

Natural resources:
-Agriculture and forestry
-Fishing
-Oil and gas
-Energy

Manufacturing:
-Whisky
-Electronics
-Textiles
-Construction

Services:
-Banking & Insurances
-Tourism

With all that taken into consideration, the Gross Domestic Product of Scotland was measured at just over £86.3 billion(€126 billion, $170 billion) by the Office for National Statistics in 2005, giving a per capita GDP of £16,944(€24,792, $33,460).

We're more than capable of supporting ourselves and to say that we couldn't is simply ignorant when the facts are right infront of you.

Financially England would be better off.

I believe it was Boris Johnson who stated a few months ago that only London, the South East and the East generate NET wealth, whereas the others eat the wealth. If England were to leave Scotland (or vice versa) we would receive an extra £20bn that wouldn't be spent in Scotland.