Thread by @NationalistScot

🇮🇪 Ireland GDP: £270 billion
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland GDP: £187 billion

🇮🇪 Ireland average salary: £33K
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland average salary: £21K

🇮🇪 Ireland projected GDP Growth: 4.8%
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland projected GDP Growth: 1%

🇮🇪 Ireland: high streets booming
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland: high streets dying

🇮🇪 Ireland: business thriving
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland: businesses closing

🇮🇪 Ireland: population doubled since independence
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland: population hardly grown in 100 years

🇮🇪 Ireland: full membership of EU
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland: forced to leave EU despite massively voting to remain

🇮🇪 Ireland: keeps 100% of tax revenues
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland: sends all tax revenues to London

🇮🇪 Ireland: decides their own government
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland: England decides government

🇮🇪 Ireland: makes own constitutional decisions
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland: UK Gov makes constitutional decisions

🇮🇪 Ireland: stays out of international conflict
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland: forced into conflicts despite Scottish MPs voting against

🇮🇪 Ireland: no nuclear bombs
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland: forced to keep UK nuclear stockpile

🇮🇪 Ireland: spends £0.8 billion on defence
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland: forced to spend £4.8 billion on defence

🇮🇪 Ireland state pension: up to £220 per week
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland state pension: up to £165 per week

🇮🇪 Ireland legal system: fully sovereign
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland legal system: overruled by UK

🇮🇪 Ireland relative poverty level: 8.3%
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland relative poverty level: 20%

🇮🇪 Ireland: sovereignty lies with people of Ireland
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland: sovereignty lies with English MPs the House of Lords and the Queen

And THAT'S the price of NOT BEING INDEPENDENT.

#DissolveTheUnion