10 Questions For The S N P Regarding Scotland Leaving The Uk.........

[ToraToraTora]

1) How will you replace the funding you get from England?
2) Are you happy to continue using the pound but have no control of it?
3) How will you service your part of the national debt?
4) How will you stop the inevitable exodus to England once the decision has been made?
5) Will you continue to offer free prescriptions, university etc ?
6) …if so how far are you prepared to raise taxes for those that remain?
7) How will you attract investment to, what will have to be a high taxation area?
8) How will you replace and fund the parts of the UK infrastructure that you now take for granted? Eg military, police, public transport?
9) are you prepared to adopt the EURO as a condition of joining the EUSSR?
10) Are you prepared to construct a border as a condition of joining the EUSSR?

The SNP have never addressed any of the above perhaps our resident "independence" supporters would like to have a go.

[THECORBYLOON]

EXARMY, Irish folk in the UK don't need to register so there is no reason for the same not to apply to Scots after independence.

[Apc2604]

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Think we should just let them go. Ten percent of UK population. No natural resources to speak of. Let them have their fantasy of independence within the EU.//

Agree.

[youngmafbog]

//Irish folk in the UK don't need to register so there is no reason for the same not to apply to Scots after independence.//

Yes there is. They cant have their cake and eat it.

[Jackdaw33]

Scots residing in England Wales and NI will remain UK citizens so no need for any registration.

[youngmafbog]

Yes its only the ones that dont want any part of the union and reside north of the border that should have a visa.

[youngmafbog]

Once departed from the Union there will have to be a Scottish passport (dount they have considered the implication of that ) and it is those that would not have indefinite leave to stay in the UK. No dual Nationality and sponging of the Union (NHS etc).

[Apc2604]

Genuine question. What can Scotland offer to the EU?

[THECORBYLOON]

"No dual Nationality and sponging of the Union (NHS etc)."

As Irish citizens can use the NHS, are they spongers?

[ToraToraTora]

....then they'll need an embassy in most of the countries of the world!

[youngmafbog]

Loon, the Irish are fine people not whinging and that is a long standing agreement.

If Scotland want to be Independent then so be it but already we see you want your cake and eat it. Why am I not surprised.

As far as I am concerned Nationalist Scots are not welcome in the UK. All other are.

[youngmafbog]

Correct TTT.

Not thought this through at all have they. But as we can see above they think then can leave and use whatever they like, at UK tax payers expense.

[davebro]

If RUK have to pay the divorce bill (a la Brexit) it might be a price worth paying?

[ToraToraTora]

so still no one from the leave UK brigade has any answers to the above perfectly reasonable questions then? right Oh!

[ToraToraTora]

apc: "Genuine question. What can Scotland offer to the EU?" - their latest delicacy is deep fried Colin the caterpiller cake:
https://metro.co.uk/2021/04/25/chippy-sells-deep-fried-colin-the-caterpillar-cake-14468105/
...go down a bundle in the Paris cafes!

[dave50]

Why is the government so worried about Scottish independence?I really cant see a downside from the English point of view.

[THECORBYLOON]

Ah, so that would be the folk from the ROI, a country that was once part of the UK?

[ToraToraTora]

"Why is the government so worried about Scottish independence?I really cant see a downside from the English point of view." -

[ToraToraTora]

dave: "Why is the government so worried about Scottish independence?I really cant see a downside from the English point of view." - because we'll end up with the refugees.

[Deskdiary]

I saw a piece on TV in the lead up to the election with a roving reporter stopping people in Glasgow asking whether they wanted to stay or go, and of the half dozen or so (and I fully accept it was only a handful before the indignation starts) those that wanted to stay were well spoken and appeared pretty intelligent, and those that didn’t, didn’t and were chavs.

Just sayin’.