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Is The Snp Peddling False Hope?
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Of course the SNP is peddling false hope.
Were Scotland to become an independent nation it would be immediately insolvent. It runs a deficit of some £9bn pa (currently financed by the UK as a whole) and it would have no means of raising that deficit on the market. It would have no currency of its own and would have to trade in one over which it has no control. Nobody would lend to it and drastic cuts would have to be made to public services.
Of course it may be hoping to be provided with funds from the EU or “transitional” funding from the remainder of the UK. I have even read of a scenario where Russia may be prepared to provide funds in return for the right to utilise Scotland for military purposes. None of these is likely and even if they were they are hardly an attractive prospect with which to entice the electorate.
Ms Sturgeon, I feel has shot her bolt. She lost her appeal to the Scottish voters in 2014 and is probably even more likely to lose again should a referendum be held this side of Brexit. Hopefully she will retire from politics to do something useful.
Were Scotland to become an independent nation it would be immediately insolvent. It runs a deficit of some £9bn pa (currently financed by the UK as a whole) and it would have no means of raising that deficit on the market. It would have no currency of its own and would have to trade in one over which it has no control. Nobody would lend to it and drastic cuts would have to be made to public services.
Of course it may be hoping to be provided with funds from the EU or “transitional” funding from the remainder of the UK. I have even read of a scenario where Russia may be prepared to provide funds in return for the right to utilise Scotland for military purposes. None of these is likely and even if they were they are hardly an attractive prospect with which to entice the electorate.
Ms Sturgeon, I feel has shot her bolt. She lost her appeal to the Scottish voters in 2014 and is probably even more likely to lose again should a referendum be held this side of Brexit. Hopefully she will retire from politics to do something useful.
But if the Scottish people have had enough of NS and don't actually want another referendum, why is she and her party so vocal about having one? I really don't understand why they would be 'war mongering' if they didn't believe they would win or had the backing of the people!!
However I wonder how much more support she will get by her war crystal. How many people will be swayed by her "look how mean the English government is rhetoric.
However I wonder how much more support she will get by her war crystal. How many people will be swayed by her "look how mean the English government is rhetoric.
I have to agree with newjudge on this.
As I pointed out on a previous thread - the notion of an independent Scotland is a non-starter because Scotland is not economically self-sufficient, or ever likely to be so.
I think Ms. Sturgeon has the spirit of William Wallace running through her, and the way she talks of Scotland being independent has a wonderful ring about it for those Scots who think that they should not be ruled from Westminster.
The real answer to that situation is considered, debated and properly considered devolution of powers which can be done without cutting the ties that make Scotland what it is as an economic an political power.
Ms. Sturgeon would do well to reconsider her main arguments, and realise that just because she is passionate about independence does not, as she seems to believe, mean that she carries the majority of her voters, or even her party, with her.
Ms. Sturgeon is falling into a fatal political trap - wanting to offer something she thinks will give her power, and being so keen to believe it, she is refusing to see that she cannot actually deliver what she claims.
As I pointed out on a previous thread - the notion of an independent Scotland is a non-starter because Scotland is not economically self-sufficient, or ever likely to be so.
I think Ms. Sturgeon has the spirit of William Wallace running through her, and the way she talks of Scotland being independent has a wonderful ring about it for those Scots who think that they should not be ruled from Westminster.
The real answer to that situation is considered, debated and properly considered devolution of powers which can be done without cutting the ties that make Scotland what it is as an economic an political power.
Ms. Sturgeon would do well to reconsider her main arguments, and realise that just because she is passionate about independence does not, as she seems to believe, mean that she carries the majority of her voters, or even her party, with her.
Ms. Sturgeon is falling into a fatal political trap - wanting to offer something she thinks will give her power, and being so keen to believe it, she is refusing to see that she cannot actually deliver what she claims.
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