Scotland would be bankrupt in weeks
The nats harp on about Scottish Oil, but to cover their bills they would have to pump out all their reserves in one go.
If Scotland were to become separate the RBS and HBOS would have to become English companies, as they couldn't afford to pay back the portions of the loans made by England Wales, and NI
The nats want to increase income tax by 3p in the pound, that would drive more South of the border.
Don\t forget the population of Scotland (at the 2001 census) was just over 5 million. More people live in London than the whole of Scotland!!
The nats oppose nuclear weapons, that means the Navy base at Faslane would end up being closed, at the cost of a few thousand jobs. The RAF would be unlikely to keep Lossiemouth and Leuchars open (after all who in the RAF would want to work there if they had to pay more tax than their colleagues in England and Wales) meaning about another 4000 jobs would go.
If Scotland had been separate at the start of the banking crisis, the Scottish taxpayer alone would have had to bail out RBS and HBOS. Every taxpayer in Scotland would have had to pay, one independent body says in the region of £19000 each.
Free university place would have to go, along with prescriptions, eye tests, need I go on?
(09-05-2011, 23:53)kenny m Wrote: Scottish notes went out of circulation as they were asked to fall in line with the rest of the UK in terms of notes etc
I went to a cash machine yesterday, and got £20 notes from the RBS, HBOS, and Clydesdale bank.
Scottish banknotes are going as strong as always
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