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Can someone please explain why UK is trying to keep Scotland?

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Kellymum · 12/09/2014 23:26

I am a bit confused. Scotland has been told from the start of the Referendum campaign that it cannot stand on its own two feet and will be worse off without the UK but surely then the rest of the UK will be BETTER OFF without Scotland?
I lived in London for 4 years and the general consensus was that Scotland was heavily subsidized by the rest of the UK. Again why? This does not seem fair to other parts of the UK. I keep hearing now from some people in England that Scotland should not get further preferential treatment. Why does Scotland get preferential treatment?
Again, if Scotland went independent, the "so called" money that has been used to subsidise them would then be redirected back to the rest of the UK. Why do they (Westminster) want to carry a dead horse?! Why oh why is Westminster so determined to keep Scotland that it has used its might through the media and corporations to not let Scotland go. It makes no sense to me. I work in business and the basic principle of business is to keep your assets and get rid of your liabilities!!! The pound should soar when Scotland is gone from the UK as a huge amount of debt would be gone? Why are the politicians sending every MP possible to woo them back? It is clear that Scotland must have something that Westminster wants. What do you think?

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ADreadedSunnyDay · 17/11/2021 15:11

I'm in Scotland and think independence would be a disaster and would like to remain in the union - but a lot of the independence supporting population buy into the 'motherhood and apple pie' rhetoric and think that everything would be awesome if only Scotland was separate and buy into the centralist, socialist SNP narrative - not seeming to realise that a lot of the economic stuff simply does not stack up. I think a lot of independence supporters are naive or from a social demographic that isn't going to be hit by more taxes / greater cost of living etc and see only benefits to them eg a bigger welfare state

RobG · 17/11/2021 15:22

@ADreadedSunnyDay

"I'm in Scotland...." 😜

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RobG · 25/06/2024 12:44

Isitmebut · 13/09/2014 10:46

SoonToBeSix ….. the oil is both running out and will get harder to lift, you’ll have sod all else to balance the Scottish economy and when was the last time in several decades did a socialist government leave the country in a better shape than they found it?

Oil came ashore here around 1976, around the time Labour called out the IMF to financially bail us out, when manufacturing had fallen from around 29% of our economy throughout the 1970’s.

For those Scots who hate the Conservatives, they seem to forget what happened after 1979, the economy they handed over to socialism in 1997, and what they have had to try fix, inheriting a £157 bil overspend.

Scotland at the moment just needs to know how to SPEND their money from Westminster, they don’t have to worry how to MAKE the annual cheque that comes in – and listening to all their threats to ‘stimulate’ the private sector investment and jobs creation by nationalising, splitting, and god knows what else, there is no reason to think they’ll be any more successful in running a sustainable economy than Labour.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/in_the_news/2180124-Scotland-can-NOT-keep-the-Pound-does-Scotland-England-France

P.S. As Scotland still pathetically mentions the Tory Poll tax (which arguably allocated per person was a better idea), why didn’t they complain when under Labour, the Council Tax alternative, went up over 110% in 13-years – or were the you all let off Scot free on that bill as well???

This will clear up a few questions

JIM ROGERS: SCOTTISH OIL PROPS UP LITTLE ENGLAND

"If the Scots leave...they are going to take their oil. And you look at the UK's balance of trade/balance of payments - without the oil, without the Scottish...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QY2W_Okl9lE

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