Please an Independant Scotland? Or stay part of the UK?

Question

What do you think? I am looking forward to a sensible debate please and not a slanging match.

Thank you AT Aberdeenshire.

Very subtle Fiona..thanks

I never knew that the English Parliment had colonised Scotland!

Answer 1

Try and decode this lyrics 'He's ain't heavy, He's my brother" with "United we stand, Divided we fall" vital for the survival of living human kind being overlook on planet earth.
Try and follow grandpa's tradition after world war two before indepedence being overlook on planet earth.
When we talk about UK we always remember the Scottish with the bagpipes from UK not scotland.
So why change the good old days.
Old wine taste better and aged with time being overlook by little children on planet earth.

Answer 2

I visit Scotland regularly as I have family there, so I suppose I've got a vested interest. In the 1990's I had the pleasure of staying in Banff the consitency of Alex Salmond MP, the leader of the Scottish National Party.

I was acutely aware of a campaign to give Scotland Independence from the rest of the United Kingdom, and being an English teenager kept asking why.

No-one was able to satisfy my need to know why Scotland should be independent. So I've followed the arguments ever since.

In the last 10-12 years no-one has been able to convince me that Scotland would be able to afford Independence.

Taxes would have to rise for the ordinary working people of Scotland to be able to afford, schools, social services, legal systems, highways and enviornmental protection, as well as other issue's such as immigration and migration, controlling the boarders, ports and airports, defence, and many other issues that a National Government would be responsible for.

I do think that the Scottish Parliament, for which elections will be held in May has made a significant contribution to Scotland and throughly enjoyed my visit to Edinburgh last year. The powers the parliament has could possibly be increased to allow more control over Scotlands policy issues, but as a small nation with a smaller population than London, the country would be considered as a Developing Nation if it was wholly independent.

Answer 3

maximum of this is all approximately brave heart. And is it in Scotland's ultimate interest. There are to many unanswered questions. And the Scottish human beings could renowned them now. a million. Will and would Scotland meet the financial situation to connect the european? 2. What forex will Scotland use, the Euro, pound or Scottish pound? 3. How various of the national debt will Scotland could pay for? this remains no longer agreed. 4. Will all public sector jobs be pass backtrack to England. i.e Tax place of work 5. militia. How will this be disbanded or paid for? 6. NHS. Will this nevertheless be available in Scotland? 7. how plenty funds according to 12 months might Scotland get from oil and gasoline? 8. employer in Scotland commerce with lots of the united kingdom, how might this variation and can or no longer this is made extra sturdy to do employer? 9. might the the remainder of the united kingdom enable Scotland to apply the British pound? 10. And might Scottish human beings be extra useful off? a lot of those questions are necessary. Already the Scottish government has made a uturn approximately NATO. And at a time while the international is in financial hassle. that's amazingly of putting for employer human beings to take a place in a so uncertain climate. There are going to be winners and losers.

Answer 4

Yes to an independent Scotland. I don't think it would make that much difference to the man in the street but it has never sat comfortably with the Scottish people that we are controlled by Westminster. During the Thatcher years (before devolution) we had a Tory government but not one Tory MP in Scotland. This was probably why she used us as an example when she imposed the Poll Tax in Scotland a year before it came into effect in England. She knew there were no seats to be lost in Scotland.

Answer 5

I have no problem with full Independence for Scotland, providing it is just that - full Independence!

As someone who lives in England I think it is wrong that Scottish MPs are allowed to vote at Westminster on matters not affecting Scotland, but an English MP doesn't have the same right in the Scottish Parliament.

It is also wrong that, per head, the Scots and Welsh effectively are subsidised by the English taxpayer due to the centralised distribution of taxes by government.

Answer 6

Since the start of devolution I have not been too impressed with the way the parlie. has gone about it's business. As we [U.K.] are part of the EU it makes the SP a talking shop as sooner or later most economic decisions will be made in Brussels and voted by the British PM. I also believe that nationalism is very dangerous and we should all be able to live together no matter where in the UK we were born. I am Scottish and proud of it.

Answer 7

when i was 7 i was going to save up all my money and buy back scotland from the queen.
in the 50 years since them i have learned a bit more and there is such a thing as being too small. britain is just the right size.

Answer 8

The UK would not be as good a country without Scotland and I am an englishman.

Answer 9

Independent, one day.

The English were made to give most of their other colonised countries back (India and so on) so why didn't we get given back? We'd been colonised waaaaay before any of the others, so surely we should have been one of the first to be returned.

Answer 10

I think Scotland should become independent.