Quote Originally Posted by BCram View Post
Islay, I have never been able to find out how Scotland intends to balance its budget if it gains independence. That's all I ask. I have given up trying to discuss the benefit of the Barnett Formula. As far as SNP voters are concerned it is a Westminster con on the people of Scotland and does not exist. I am prepared to accept their point of view on the basis that they are able to explain how they raise the money to pay for their expenditure. UK operates with a deficit so it would seem fair to let them do the same. Let's see the figures before we get to a referendum.
The pro independence politicians both at Holyrood and Westminster want the electorate in Scotland to vote in favour of Scotland becoming an independent country and then they will tell us all the problems.
That is why people in Scotland are not encouraged to ask searching questions such as what would the currency be in an independent Scotland and if an independent Scotland was able to join the EU what currency would be used.
Recently I seem to remember reading that Kate Forbes the Cabinet Secretary for Finance stated that a hard border with England would bring more trade and business to an independent Scotland.
Whilst a hard border would bring a lot of work to the construction industry who would be building a brick wall between England and Scotland I can only see a lot less trade between Scotland and the rest of the U.K. particularly in the farming sector.
It is likely that illegal immigrants would use Scotland as an easy entry route to try to escape into England.