(1)Maybe Bloomberg would care to find someone who actually knows something about Scotland because this tome is riddled with inaccuracies,
"Tories have long complained about tax transfers to Scotland and the so-called West Lothian question"
West Lothian question? laws decided for English constituencies have a direct impact in the shape of Barnett Consequentials for Scotland meaning if a reduction is made to a budget in England it also has a direct negative impact on the same budget
(3)"In recent years, Scottish independence has been predicated on the country being a member of the EU. But if it had to rejoin the bloc after Brexit, Spain might have reservations about setting precedent that might be seized upon in secessionist Catalonia."
(4)Spain have repeatedly said that the constitutional setup in the UK is an entirely different animal to Spains and should Scotland leave the UK legally Spain would have nothing to say on the matter and CERTAINLY wouldn't interfere in
(5)"There is also disagreement over whether and when Scotland would have to join the euro,"
Again absolute nonsense
do you even understand the requirements of a countries wish to join the euro?
2nd a country voluntarily chooses to join the ERM exchange rate mechanism
(note the word voluntarily)which it must remain in for 3 years or more
then it finally joins the euro,
but in reality there are no riots on the streets of Scotland demanding we do not join the euro!
"In reality, Brexit cuts both ways in Scotland. Devolution – the process
Do you seriously think that is because of a lack of imagination on the part of the devolved governments?
This is getting boring!
Scotland would have a right to 10% of the UK forces hardware (minus the huge
Currently Scotland is "charged" 3.5 billion for its "defence" a country of our size can have a perfectly sound defence for less than half that amount!
I wont even waste my time on the cost of setting up the departments required for an independent country because we already
what I will say is this,
if Scotland even did have an 8% deficit, under who's watch was it incurred?
hardly a good reason for us to stay in the UK but further to that, can you point to me a country that DOESN'T operate a deficit?
" But in an independent country, the left-wing SNP’s big-spending ways will be a problem."
You have really excelled yourself with that one,
can you tell us what big spending ways the SNP have? we're all ears!
but just so you know, when the UK government "spends" on "national infrastructure projects such as HS2 a high speed rail link from London to Leeds Crossrall, or the London sewerage system upgrade,