Is Scottish independence a 'good or bad' thing?

Really? So increasing the tax free allowance to £10k and committing hundreds of millions to job creation doesn't qualify for that in your eyes?

So it's just tinkering to give people thousands of pounds extra year? I know I could sure have used that when half my wages were going on rent a few years ago.

As for austerity-it is a harsh necessity of restoring the economy to strength.

People starving is a harsh necessity?

Instead of letting people starve...austerity could have been done by maybe not spending money on nuclear weapons?...I know what I think is more important.

Bingo again! And who is it benefiting? The rich, not the poor!

You are quite happy to be a part of a country where the rich get richer and the poor get poorer, but count me out.

Unemployment goes down and less of people's earnings goes to the taxman and you still think Joe Bloggs is being swindled. It was the Labour government which got a comfy majority in Scotland who racked up debt like it was going out of fashion and paved the way for resulting cuts.

Predictably people use austerity to bash the Tories with but it is their predecessors who should be under arguably greater scrutiny for making this a necessity.

And none of these thousands you claim people are gaining very year (I know nobody that is thousands better off due to these measures), prevents this country being a mess. I hope you watch that video posted above. It's disgusting!

I am ashamed to be living in a country where this is true...

We can't spend what we ain't got and that is not just down to this present government. The party Scotland sends most to Westminster every general election left this debt as their legacy.

Australia is about to invest 80billion Australian dollars in capital projects on infrastructure to create jobs and raise tax revenues to cut its budget deficit. That could have been the UK government - a decision that would have prevented the need to cut things. Like I have already said, investment in capital projects by borrowing to invest is the way to stimulate growth. Telling people that austerity is the only way to get out of the catastrophe that was created is ludicrous.

So we can't borrow to invest then? I am sorry, that is just lies. That is how governments raise money they don't collect in tax receipts, a deficit in other words. They borrow that money from the markets, invest that money in capital projects, and the borrowed money is paid back from the investment. Anything above that is money for the Scottish Treasury.

What a surprise you don't know anybody who benefits. You don't need to talk to me about food banks considering my home city gets news articles on the very subject. Coventry's food banks are the busiest in the UK, despite Scots here seeming to think they are alone in having them:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/food-bank-visitors-in-coventry-compassion-has-disappeared-out-of-the-welfare-state-9263042.html

This is far from the only country having to undergo such measures, though, and if you think an iScotland with its multi billion pound deficit would be exempt from them you are sorely mistaken. We can't spend what we ain't got and that is not just down to this present government. The party Scotland sends most to Westminster every general election left this debt as their legacy.

Thats just tinkering...massive change is needed. Here is more on what is really happening under this economic progress you claim of.

The True Cost of Austerity - Dennis Curran: http://youtu.be/sIiq86KbYmo

We are not saying we are the only people getting swindled...everyone outside the very south of England is. Just because there are foodbanks in conventry, liverpool or swansea doesn't mean we can't complain about having them here. In fact I feel that many people in this island are turning a blind eye to it in comparison to us in Scotland...somone has to say that its just unnacceptable.

This "its a neccisity" argument is just inhumane. There are people starving in the year 2014 in the UK. Unacceptable. Those people don't need tax savings on their earnings (single mums dont have earnings), those people dont need nuclear weapons or high speed rail links...they need welfare to support themeselves and their kids....at the goverment are saying "no money and hence food for you...you dont deserve it"

Shocking that you can defend that.

Bingo again! And who is it benefiting? The rich, not the poor!

You are quite happy to be a part of a country where the rich get richer and the poor get poorer, but count me out.

We are not saying we are the only people getting swindled...everyone outside the very south of England is. Just because there are foodbanks in conventry, liverpool or swansea doesn't mean we can't complain about having them here. In fact I feel that many people in this island are turning a blind eye to it in comparison to us in Scotland...somone has to say that its just unnacceptable.

This "its a neccisity" argument is just inhumane. There are people starving in the year 2014 in the UK. Unacceptable. Those people don't need tax savings on their earnings (single mums dont have earnings), those people dont need nuclear weapons or high speed rail links...they need welfare to support themeselves and their kids....at the goverment are saying "no money and hence food for you...you dont deserve it"

Shocking that you can defend that.

Here's a nice bit of special pleading:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-27370812

The argument is that Scots don't live as long so will be short-changed by the raising of pension ages. It is, of course, all Westminster's fault.

There seems to be no admission that the Scottish government, with devolved responsibility for health in Scotland, is short-changing its citizens on life expectancy.

Scotland contributes more obesity per head to the UK than it receives, says an SNP spokesman.


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I think it could be good for Scotland but it would be terrible for those who are left. I don't want to be left with an unchecked Torie government for the rest of my life

Not going to happen.