Kitty Bear wrote:Own Currency sorted ?
Own Head of State sorted ?
What level of taxation do you think will be needed to support :
- Education
- Health
- Welfare
- Border Controls
Because remember, freedom from the UK means going it alone.
You want Independence, don't expect the English, Welsh & N.I citizens to foot the bills because that's NOT independence.
On the plus side there will be fewer seats needed in Parliament ...
Sure your politicians can sit in the viewing area, but they will be foreign nationals and therefore get no vote on matters regarding UK law/policy.
I'm pretty sure a lot of people haven't really considered this side of Scottish independence very much at all.
Ditto to the Welsh .. as they state this desire quite frequently too.
Scotland already have their own NHS, Education system, Councils etc. etc... They also pay more in taxes into the UK as a whole while receiving less of those taxes back to spend.
The Trident facility also costs > -ú600K per DAY to maintain and actively blocks drilling for oil in that area - which (just like all of the UK's costal area's) is terrible news due to shipyards dieing and more and more Business being moved to London - more jobs in these area's are desperately needed (unlike nukes, they aren't as mandatory to feed families)
In the history of the world, only 1 country has discovered Oil and gotten poorer: Scotland. You seem to be spouting Pro-Union propaganda that is incredibly biased.
But this issue seems to have brought out the worst in the UK: People made up there mind without actually researching the things being said.
Tassin en Lone wrote:More countries equals more politicians equals more wasted tax money. The EU may have its flaws and might need some restructuring, but a united Europe is the way to go, first Europe, then the world, then Mars.
The UK just voted in the the EU parlimentary elections for a party called UKIP (they have the majority of seats from the UK) - they have stated they want to leave the EU essentially. Scottish votes where < 6000 across the whole country for this party, but due to representation in England they now have to face a possible future out of the EU, which they haven't voted for.
Shirley Serious wrote:That part is a campaign tactic. By promising to keep the pound, the Queen, and various other things that are UK-wide, they hope to win over some people who don't like the ideas promoted by other elements of the pro-independence campaign - the Scottish Socialist Party for example wants a socialist republic.
should a yes vote happen, then the plan is for referendum after referendum after referendum until "the correct result is achieved", which includes removal of the monarchy.
This plan largely relies on the creation of the attitude that the other countries of the UK are "the enemy", and "cannot be trusted". Every time that one of the shared institutions makes a decision that does not favour the 8% of the population that is Scotland, then it will be trumpeted as "Evil anti-scottish thieving by the enemy", and so on.
There are other plans, such as gaelicisation of the entire country, aspiring to replace football with shinty as the national favourite sport, and so on.
Everything you just said is unfounded and ironically more campaign tactics. There is a reason Scottish people have dubbed the 'No' Campaign "Project Fear".
The UK is a mess. Can you blame them for wanting to try and do it better themself? Instead fo swallowing Yes/No lies from both sides, go look up real information. The US has the same issue - they have zsero personal freedoms these days thanks to 'Anti-Terrorism Measures' but the 2 party system doesn't support change, only the propagation of the norm. You can thank congress for that.