Is Scottish independence a 'good or bad' thing?

Why do they remain the "most popular party"?

Christopher McLean, Senior Researcher at Ipsos MORI Scotland, said: “Over two years on from their landslide victory in the 2011 Scottish Parliament elections, the SNP remain the most popular party among voters in Scotland. Indeed, the SNP’s popularity is aided by the high levels of satisfaction with the party’s leading figures as both the First Minister and Deputy First Minister continue to achieve high approval ratings.

That was 300 years ago. The union is presently bankrupt, and times have moved on dramatically since 1707.

Turnout for elections in the UK is one of the lowest in the developed world. The SNP were the only party to gain seats in 2011; all other parties lost seats, regardless of the percentage of people who voted for them

What? I'm speaking for Scots. Every Scot falls under the category I listed - governed by those of a different country (the english). If they don't mind being governed by englishmen then I'll gladly exclude them from my future statements about Scots.

A country should be governed completely by it's own countrymen and that really is as simple as it goes. You can argue about the economy and shoot down independence with some projected bull**** figures but there's no denying the fact that we are governed by a government who is catering for a different country than ours.

lol. The leading parties have all made clear signals that if Scotland votes no, then further devolution for Scotland is on the table.

The Scottish Tories gained seats, I am fairly sure-they have 16 MSPs to the Lib Dems pathetic 5.


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The union is not bankrupt.


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Over £1trillion of debt is not bankruptcy? What would you call it then? The UK government has always been in debt. It was in debt before North Sea oil, and was still in debt after oil revenues were added.

Pretty well all countries are in debt.

Countries that are big, not countries that are small and independent, excluding perhaps Ireland and Iceland, but being independent has gave them absolute 100% autonomy to fix those problems. Scotland is powerless because of the union it is tied to.

Every single EU country, even the smallest, has national debt.

Really? Are Norway and Sweden in debt, or Denmark? Never heard that one.

You've never looked
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_public_debt

Norway 30% debt:GDP
Sweden 39% debt:GDP
Denmark 45% debt:GDP

Do you find reading difficult?

Which lies? Cite your sources.

Let's talk about others lying shall we, while we're at it..

Recently, David Cameron was caught out last week when he falsely claimed in a Conservative Party political broadcast that the coalition was "paying down Britain's debts"

Over £1trillion of debt is not bankruptcy? What would you call it then? The UK government has always been in debt. It was in debt before North Sea oil, and was still in debt after oil revenues were added.

The UK government has not been declared bankrupt and has not been in danger of defaulting like the USA has-ergo it is not bankrupt.

There is also far more to our economy than oil. Far more.

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It really annoys me that Scots falsely link independence to Salmond and the SNP. What about voting out the SNP in an independent Scotland? Scottish representation is about 8 or 9%, as there are 650 MP's in Westminster, but only 59 Scottish. So Scottish MP's are in a tiny minority.