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cancel2 2022 (05-09-2021)
Fix the NHS instead! Michael Gove tells Nicola Sturgeon to focus on running Scotland after she renews referendum demand despite SNP FAILING to get Holyrood majority
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ependence.html
She SWAMPED the election. Her FOURTH term of FIVE YEARS is just one seat short of an OVERALL majority for the Scottish Nationalists. SNP alliances make the demand for Scottish independence impossible to ignore;
Nicola Sturgeon tells Boris Johnson there is 'no democratic justification' for refusing indyRef2
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics...justification/
Are you planning to keep Scotland captive, maggot ?
Haw, haw............................haw.
" First they came for the journalists...
We don't know what happened after that . "
Maria Ressa.
cancel2 2022 (05-09-2021)
cancel2 2022 (05-09-2021)
The EU and the UK, come to that, will insist on a hard border with border posts, visas, customs checks etc. Scots will no longer be able to live in the rest of the UK without residence permits and they will lose access to Sterling, the Barnett Formula, free university places, the NHS and a host of other benefits. Many Scottish businesses like the Royal Bank of Scotland, Scottish Widows insurance etc. will relocate south taking many jobs with them.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...ecast-suggestsIndependence could cost Scotland's economy £11bn a year, forecast suggests
Economists say impact of leaving UK’s common market would hit two to three times as hard as leaving EU
The UK is Scotland’s largest and most important trading partner, the report said, accounting for 61% of its exports and 67% of its imports. Photograph: Jane Barlow/PA
Scotland’s economy would shrink by at least £11bn a year if it became independent, more than doubling the damaging impacts of Brexit, a team of economists has forecast.
The report from the London School of Economics and City University of Hong Kong found that quitting the UK’s common market would hit the Scottish economy two to three times as hard as leaving the EU, just counting the impact on trade alone.
Suggesting that the worst economic effects would take several decades to take hold, the LSE’s Centre for Economic Performance said the impacts on its trade with both the UK and the EU would shrink Scotland’s economy in the long run by between 6.3% and 8.7%.
That was equivalent to a loss of between £2,000 to £2,800 per capita a year: with Scotland’s population estimated to be nearly 5.5 million, that puts the losses at between £11bn and £15.4bn.
The Scottish government, which is currently wrestling with the near collapse of Scottish seafood exports to the EU because of post-Brexit customs controls, currently spends around £14bn on the NHS each year.
The authors stressed their analysis only covered the impacts of increasing trading costs, and excluded other economic or fiscal issues post-independence, such as cuts or increases in inward investment, changes in immigration, currency changes or tax changes.
While it would be slightly better for an independent Scotland to rejoin the EU compared with staying outside both it and the UK, it would be extremely hard for EU trade to make up for all the substantial losses in UK trade.
The UK is Scotland’s largest and most important trading partner, the report said, accounting for 61% of its exports and 67% of its imports – around four times greater than its trade with the EU. Independence would increase trading costs with the rest of the UK by 15% to 30%.
US tariffs on Scotch whisky 'have cost £500m in lost exports'
The report, Disunited Kingdom? Brexit, Trade and Scottish independence, concludes: “Changes in Scottish trade patterns following independence are likely to occur gradually, over a generation or more. Consequently, in the initial decades after independence, the rest of the UK will remain Scotland’s biggest trade partner.”
Hanwei Huang, one of the report’s authors, said: “This analysis shows that, at least from a trade perspective, independence would leave Scotland considerably poorer than staying in the United Kingdom.
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