So 9 Years Is A Generation In Scotland? Right Oh!

ToraToraTora | 14:44 Tue 28th Jun 2022 | News

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-61968607
Seems like a good time to ask the famous 10 again, there are many others but these'll do for starters. PS none of these have ever been attempted let alone answered, which is odd because they are very pertinent for a Country proposing to leave the UK.
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.

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gordiescotland1

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I voted No the last independence referendum and nothing has changed for me. I will vote No again. We dont need another one. She is destroying this country she is a narcissistic witch

16:38 Tue 28th Jun 2022

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jno: I added a year because it will be nine if they go ahead on the planned day in 2023. You'd probably pick me up on it if I didn't. I can't win with the 5C.

THECORBYLOON

"Nationalist fervour has gripped many Scots, without invoking Godwin's law I worry where it's leading."

I see you have failed to respond to NAOMI's post at 17:04.

Would you care to elaborate or is it yet another one of your completely baseless opinions?

jno

what was Brexit if not nationalist fervour?

THECORBYLOON

The previous referendum happened at a time when the UK was in the EU and there was no talk of a Brexit referendum.

TORATORATORA says Brexit was about sovereignty yet doesn't want Scotland to have a vote to give their government the sovereignty to apply to re-join the EU.

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so yet again no answers to the famous 10! Fear not I will post them again in the future.

Old_Geezer

It just proves that Nicola has lost the plot, along with her supporters. Like the EU, she forgets she's already had a vote and continually demands one. And the excuses made to try to make out this behaviour is valid are quite ridiculous. Time she was pensioned off and a vote taken on who, if anyone, should, or are even capable of, replacing her.

naomi24

OG, since the goalposts have shifted, I think her call for another referendum is valid.

THECORBYLOON

"so yet again no answers to the famous 10!" Famous in your world perhaps but no-one else's.

The announcement of the date for the new referendum was announced only yesterday.

A 650-page document was released for the previous referendum so it would be better to wait for a similar publication in connexion with the next vote.

THECORBYLOON

TORATORATORA regarding, "no answers", you're yet to explain what it is you fear the "nationalist fervour" is leading to.

Old_Geezer

Nothing significant has shifted. There needs to be decades at least between polls to ascertain whether there is support for secession from the UK. One can't justify trying to flip flop after a few years.

naomi24

OG, leaving the EU is very significant - especially to the majority of Scots who voted to remain.

THECORBYLOON

"Nothing significant has shifted."

You don't think that the UK leaving the EU and all of the thirty-two council areas in Scotland voting to remain, since the previous referendum, is not a significant shift?

Gromit

There is no law that say independence referendums have to be every generation (whatever number of years that is).
At the last one, the SNP said it was a once in a generation chance to vote. It was an encouragement to people to get out and vote. It wasn’t a promise not to try again for decades.

Politicians change their minds all the time, especially if it suits them. 8 years ago the SNP didn’t get the result they wanted, so will now take every excuse to try again.

A few short weeks ago Starmer's idea of a windfall tax on the energy companies was denounced as leftwing wealth envy and economic naivety. Until the Government realised it was a populist vote winner and they could get away with it. And they chanced their mind and are now fervently for it.