| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Why are all the main 3 parties plus the majority of the media against Scottish Independence? | |
| Posted by: | Andrew Cumming | |
| Date/Time: | 09/09/14 17:24:00 |
| The financial aspect is not really why most Scots are interested in independence. That is just an indicator as to why, in time, they feel that independence could work for them. Here is an argument for independence that is going around on social media. "I always find that if you flip the debate around with a no or undecided voter it always has the desired result. Try this next time you speak with a no voter, ask them how they would vote in this situation.....there can only be one outcome. Imagine Scotland was already independent and we were about to have a referendum on whether to join a union with the rest of the UK. Could the Pro-union side convince us that getting together would be better when we were told what would happen to Scotland after such a union? Some bullet points from the campaign… -Your main Parliament will move 600 miles away, and your MPs will be in a tiny minority & will therefore have limited ability to effect policy on your behalf -Scotland will get a government it didn’t vote for. -All of your oil and gas revenues will be handed over to the treasury in London. -Even though not 1 inch of track will touch Scottish soil your taxpayers will contribute £4.2bn to the HS2 project. -Your taxpayers will also subsidise the crossrail project to the tune of £4.2bn -The biggest nuclear weapons facility in Western Europe will be built on the river Clyde, just 30 miles from your largest city. -Even though you only have 8.2% of the UK’s population you will contribute 9.9% of the UK’s total tax take yet will only receive 9.3% of that tax take back to spend in Scotland (you will lose £4.4bn per year to the UK treasury) -You will devolve all of the economic levers you have used to shape your economy directly to London and will now only have control of 7% of your economy -Even though 79% of your MP's voted against it we will privitise your publicly owned mail service -Even though 91% of your MPs voted against the bedroom tax in your parliament, we will impose it. -Even though 82% of your MP's believed that a VAT increase would be detrimental to your economy, we will impose a VAT increase. -You will join a country whose health and education services are rapidly being privatised. -Now and again you’ll get dragged into an illegal foreign war. -An austerity budget will be imposed from London cutting jobs and threatening vital public services even though 81% of your MP's voted against the cuts. -The financial regulation system will be so weak and so lax that your whole economy will be brought to the brink of collapse. -The most weak and vulnerable in society, instead of getting the protection and support they deserve will be interrogated and humiliated in an effort to get them off the meagre levels of support to which they are entitled. Who in Scotland would vote for such a package? Who would vote for that union? So why would anyone vote to remain in such a union now?" |