Is Scottish independence a 'good or bad' thing?

I feel like I am banging my head against a brick wall here. I have answered this, many times already.

Sticking with Plan A, wins votes.
Surrendering to rUK threats loses votes.

Its very simple.

Also, I wonder if Labour have shot themselves in the foot, and put a further dent in the unionist's cause, by side-lining with the Tories yet again over the welfare cap.

www.heraldscotland.com/comment/columnists/party-that-made-the-welfare-state-has-lost-its-credibility.23784382?_=b4182bff4b3cf75f9e54f4990f9bd153c0c2973c

Westminister gives 33 Billion a year to the scottish parliament. I've often heard the response that Scotland has been given more back to England, but I would like to ask if you have statistics which I could verify this please?

Why do you think they are lying? It would not be in the rUKs interest at all to enter a currency union with an independent government. The basic economics show this quite clearly.

Ah, you're back. Happy to accept the white paper in fact reads like an SNP manifesto?


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Scotland consistently receives more than it puts in and this can be determined from Scottish Government figures. Google 'GERS 2011-12' and such like.


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Thanks for welcoming me back. I tried to google-fu your copy-paste job, but gave up in the end.

Well in that case you'll be happy to be rid of us drains on your money!

Scotland consistently receives more than it puts in and this can be determined from Scottish Government figures. Google 'GERS 2011-12' and such like.


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YES

A few points here, a few points there is how we win!
Crack on with your biased hard analysis though, see how many votes that sways your way

Also, I wonder if Labour have shot themselves in the foot, and put a further dent in the unionist's cause, by side-lining with the Tories yet again over the welfare cap.

www.heraldscotland.com/comment/columnists/party-that-made-the-welfare-state-has-lost-its-credibility.23784382?_=b4182bff4b3cf75f9e54f4990f9bd153c0c2973c

Thank you! I knew Scotland couldn't possibly be giving more than 33 billion a year to Westminister, but it's amazing how often 'independence' pursuers retort with this.

Previously I thought that the figures for English tax receipts were not available. Turns out they are, and it also turns out that England contributes a higher % of tax income than its % population of the UK. When you look at the amount contributed versus received, England gets a 'subsidy' of about £1k per head. Scotland gets £2k per head more, Wales is £4.5k, and Northern Ireland a whopping £5.1k.

http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/statistics/receipts/disagg-method.pdf

You'll generally find that NI & Wales are the ones that are receiving a high amount of spending. But for some unknown reason the SNP have been pushing this myth that all of Scotland's money is going to London.

I'd be happier if they were truthful and say 'we don't want share and keep it all ourselves as although we like to say we're socialists, we're just greedy.'

Its just greed really.

Scotland receives the 2nd most but contributes far more than Wales or NI on a per head basis.

I liked when Joan macAlpine claimed that scottiah money was being used on London's sewers.....then found out it was paid for by Londoners.

You talk about embarrassment, then come out with that gibberish. Firstly, they don't, there is many many different opinions on this from lots of respected economists.
Secondly, economics is far from simple and even the best economists in the world struggle to predict the future.

And as for a NO voter trying to give advice to the YES campaign? They are doing fine without it.

I presume Yes campaigners will now be directing attention to the unfairness in paying for the good people of Cardiff and Belfast?


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So you think its acceptable for benefits to be paid at a higher level than the average wage?

Think before you type. Even the bedroom tax has a broad level of support in Scotland.

How did you come to that bizarre conclusion?

People will put off now that they know they will be voting for tories or tory light at westminster.