knowing this will change the nation from the UK to something else while scotland goes it alone.
do you think England would be better off with out us Scots.
2007-11-22 08:43:47 · 15 answers · asked by IHATETHEEUSKI 5 in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
i personaly want Scotland to leave the union and have a seperate and independant country status. i believe we will be far richer with out the drain of westminster. i like the English people but not the government
2007-11-22 08:52:32 · update #1
Alice C
you have no idea what your talking about. we have somuch to develope and we will just like ireland did and many other small counties
2007-11-22 08:57:15 · update #2
telf
the same was said for many nations who got independence, it would not be easy but we can do it , we are grown up and we dont need a babysitter or a foreign government dictating policy to us.
we were a nation before England and we should be again. have faith and courage my friend
2007-11-22 09:01:30 · update #3
ferrari babe
yo uhave hit it on the head, the union is all but done its time to go our own ways and pay our own bills and vote on our own isssues
2007-11-22 09:13:05 · update #4
I would vote yes. Just loving those answers saying we'd crash & burn. So like the Unionist parties that know we will be OK on our own, but England would be in flames.
2007-11-22 19:28:13 · answer #1 · answered by Jock 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Isn't it strange that as the federal monster of Europe grows so smaller nations wan to become independent. We are being sucked into this bottomless money pit because we are to stupid to see the disadvantages of its growth. Look at the fishing quotas this week for instance. At least the Scots are getting together as one nation and fighting this Euro march head on. And if that means getting rid of the biggest hypocrites then every credit to their ambitious plan. The Union can survive but only if England has a parliament that votes on English only issues too. Its a yes from me.
2007-11-22 08:51:34 · answer #2 · answered by Old Man of Coniston!. 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I would vote yes. Whilst the SNP gain support in Scotland I notice the Scots don't mind taking the £17 million a year from English taxpayers, and Scottish MP's voting on matters affecting England. The union is all but parted anyway since the creation of the Irish Parliament and Welsh assembly.
2007-11-22 09:06:17 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Yes, as long as you take all the Scottish MPs from Westminster with you and pay for their pensions. This would of course include Brown and the ex PM Blair without whom all of the legislation currently being paid for by the English would not have been implemented in Scotland - not England eg :- free university tuition, free school meals, free nursing home care, free prescriptions - need i say any more. Actually, now that ihave retired i am seriously considering coming over Hadrians wall to join you before you have an exclusion zone.
Yippee!
2007-11-22 08:52:23 · answer #4 · answered by Helen S 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Okay let's compare Scotland with it's closest neighbours.
Scotland has a population of around 5 million...
Norway has a population of 5 million (and is the 2nd richest country in the world)
Iceland has a population of 300 thousand (is the 7th richest)
Ireland has a population of 6 million (is the 10th richest)
What do those other countries have that Scotland doesn't? Oh yeah... a little something called INDEPENDENCE. :-)
2007-11-22 12:50:07 · answer #5 · answered by Butterscotch 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
i don't believe that England would be better of with out the Scott's. or indeed 'the other way around'. i just think that if Scotland wants it. they should be entitled to have independence.
2007-11-22 13:29:16 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
I honestly dont know.
I used to be a staunch SNP Supporter but with the mess Salmond and co seem to be making of things since they got to play 'big boys' I now dont know.
Most of the Oil Reserves which were the backbone of the policies over the years are now depleting, so our long term prognosis would be iffy.
? who knows now ?
2007-11-22 08:55:53 · answer #7 · answered by Telf 4 · 3⤊ 2⤋
I would vote for independence, of course. And for the north of Ireland as well.
I could care less how England fares.
2007-11-22 13:32:42 · answer #8 · answered by gortamor 4 · 3⤊ 2⤋
If i could make that decision i'd have the world in an iron-fisted dictatorship but since i don't i say what the people want otherwise i want it to be part of the U.K and England but it has power over itself too.
2007-11-22 08:47:56 · answer #9 · answered by dyude 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋
I'm Welsh not Scottish and I wouldn't want to have to choose what is best for the people of Scotland. Its not up to me or up to you or up to anyone but THE PEOPLE OF SCOTLAND!
They should have a referendum on it. Let them decide.
2007-11-22 22:34:56 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋