Oh here we go. It's the 'there's no point being reasonable with these people, they're like religious zealoots' non-argument, thanks for trying to completely shut down discussion Wankers. And Morris, I said educated, but not sure why you are ranting about people saying we're talented and creative.
Yes, we have access to those things currently. But in fact we don't have access to lots of things in our own country or to influence our own economy, for example corporation tax, immigration policy, even a Brexit that we don't want. And to use someone's household analogy (although running a country is not really like running a household, is it?), why would you want to share your washing machine/utilities with your neighbour, using the same bath etc, you need your own surely. Do you hand your wages to your neighbour and await money back and allow them to make deals with your neighbours to use the garden in return for something that will benefit them? If your neighbours borrowed on their credit card and said to you 'you have to pay a share of that because I have bought a bigger car, ffs, you should be grateful' - No.
Yes, becoming independent would cost money. What doesn't? Priorities need to be decided. And I would rather Scotland had the chance to decide our own kind of country, which doesn't sell off anything and everything to private investors, which doesn't mean someone has to be really quite comfortably well off in order to sleep at night without worrying about healthcare or that their disabled family member can be looked after properly without having to beg, that looks after the weak and poor instead of closing down shelters for abused wives and children. A country which is actively appalled when told to make a woman who was raped fill in an eight page form and prove to a heath professional that she is not lying in order to get child benefit. Run for the benefit of its own population instead of for the elite 1% in the UK as a whole.
I would love to see proper Scottish political parties after independence come up with manifestos and choose which I agreed with. A real Scottish Labour which is not merely a branch office, where the Scottish Labour leader could state their own policies and not be contradicted by a boss in a different country who doesn't agree with them. Even a Conservative party in Scotland, along with Greens and whoever else. We could perhaps get some proper debate about things that matter to us. The population would feel that their votes count.
Not a committed unionist. Right. The SNP don't want people to have a better standard of living. Right. That's why they are spending millions on mitigating Tory policies for the most vulnerable in Scotland. Perhaps if they didn't have to spend so much doing that, they might have more options.
You may have felt the sums didn't add up in 2014, fair enough. But the option now for Scotland in a Brexit UK is what looks horrific to me.
But I can see that unless you are guaranteed an immediate uplift in income and standard of life there is no way you will even consider Scotland's independence and I am being dismissed as a zealot so why am I even bothering. It's strange to me that the Scotsnet board is the one that this sort of comment pops up on most often.