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would quickly build up.
Edinman He is saying the £100bn basically will be needed to fund Scotland exiting the UK, we have a £180bn GDP and 7 per cent deficit and we are not funding all essential services – the UK funds some, including the MOD and gives us the £13 billion in Barnett payments which will stop on exit. So I think he is about right.
Scouser in Scotland A point to note, btw, currencies don’t really use assets anymore, it is the national economies that support most now. So this takes me on to pointing out that a weak economy with an unsupported currency is one of the main reasons that Indy bombs.
Calum Mackenzie Brexit has hammered the pound, and my pension plans are feeling the effects. Independence would see the supposedly wealthy
– i.e. anyone with savings or earnings – taxed to a ludicrous degree to bail out the Darien dreamers, the jakeys and the idle.
you are parasites SNP independence plans? That’s just it, we’re still waiting for the details. On her first appearance on Question Time, Joanna Cherry assured viewers the SNP had an economic plan for a “rosy future”. That was over three years ago now.
David Thomson The state pension will be a worry for a lot of people – especially if it’s converted to the SNP’S monopoly money equivalent (whatever currency they foist upon us) and the £100 billion bill mentioned above needs to be paid back at crippling interest rates. What an absolute disaster we face
Douglas David
The SNP know “Isolatedscotland” would face decades of austerity max and isolation and financial upheaval so they will talk about indy right up to the point where it gets noticed and the questions get serious, then they drop it like a hot brick.
Roastin SNP still hopeful that any split of national debt will be done on a population split. However, as most of the £trillion debt was caused by the RBS fiasco and Labour’s decision to bail them out, most of the debt could legally head North, sinking an iscotland from day one.
Iana58 Scots Unionists hide behind the self-serving argument that they need to see a viable financial impact assessment to support Scottish independence, yet they never asked the UK parliament the same questions when it proposed its anti-union Brexit.
Jeremy Corbyn has insisted the experience of a four-year-old boy lying on a pile of coats to keep warm while he waited for a hospital bed is a political issue.
The NHS is in a parlous state. Doesn’t matter how much dosh is thrown at it, it won’t improve. Its organisation needs a complete overhaul. It’s not simply a political issue. It’s mainly a managerial and social issue.
Singalongasturge Given the size of the NHS a wide variety of performance attainment is inevitable, we only ever hear about the worst examples. I personally do not know of a better system with no failures. What would help is if the NHS was completely removed from the political debate, but that will never happen as it is the dog whistle for any opposition.
Roastin
You were not so keen on taking the broad perspective view when we discussed the failings of the SNHS recently.
Toreador
Gutter politics from Corbyn.. He really ought to grow up.
John Honest
The mother has said she wants this to stop being used as a political football.