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In reply to the discussion: Shock new poll says Scots set to vote yes to independence [View all]Nihil
(13,508 posts)They'll take carpet-bagging to a new level whilst the poor deluded voters get shat on again & again.
Currency change: Remember the ERM debacle that made obscenely rich speculators even richer?
Costs: Having to basically duplicate the entire machinery of state is going to cost a fortune.
Loss of subsidies from the UK (and, probably, from the EU) will unfairly impact rural Scots.
Tax increases across the remaining public to get funds to try to juggle the books for the above.
Employment will be a real roller-coaster as some things will go away (e.g., MOD bases/suppliers)
but others will have to spring up from nothing (e.g., the above bureaucracy). And as the new state
will need stuff done *now*, all the "independent" Scots will be swamped by job-hunting immigrants
(hah! including the English!) with the support & encouragement of their own brand-new government.
Scotland has many enviable progressive aspects - very enviable when seen from the depths
of Tory England - but those very things will be the first casualties of the reality train bearing the
name "Independence".
I can't see it ending well for the average Scot but who can tell?
For myself, I fear the resulting slide to the Right in England: The two main parties have already
moved significantly to the right in the last few decades and that was despite the largely calming
influence of the (non-Blairite) Scottish Labour MPs. Once that has gone - and it will have to
go as no-one will want Scottish MPs after they split off - then the road will inevitably turn even
further in the direction of capitalism, greed, nationalism & the whole "Me First" lifestyle.