Quote Originally Posted by Deeranged View Post
Islay, since I posted once that I hated the arrogance of many of the English people I met during my time in the RAF, pointing out how racist they can be to other UK residents, a certain poster has called me racist and anti English. I'm not and never have been, I just dislike the attitude of many of those people. Best not to respond to that poster who clearly has issues.

I also know many English residents of Scotland who vote SNP and who support independence; one of these was a Professor of Economics at St. Andrews University - now sadly passed away. He was convinced it was the only way to go and could present very good and viable arguments for it. Unfortunately a lot of it was over my head but he was very clear on it. He was also very big on sustainability and this is where he saw much of Scotland's value as an independent nation. Obviously many of his opinions on independence were formed from the corruption rife in successive UK Tory governments which would also exist in an independent Scottish SNP government.

The independence debate is done to death on here and I think, with Sturgeon gone, could well now be dead in the water. Time to move on and to get Labour back into Holyrood
That could be difficult as a lot of Labour supporters including White Settlers on Islay now vote SNP.
Goodness knows why as an independent Scotland will lose its annual income from the Barnett Formula plus Barnett consequentials which this year has resulted in the Scottish Government receiving £41 Billion from Westminster.
The pro independence supporters are unable/unwilling to explain how the loss of the income from the Barnett Formula would be replaced.