pvr said:
I am glad Scotland can afford free healthcare and free universities whilst no other country can afford that. Long may it continue after an independence ...
Excellent isn't it. Perhaps you should ask your MP why that is instead of accepting Tuition Fees or Prescription Charges as normal. There's always that £350 million that goes to the EU every week that can be spent on the NHS. Oh wait that one wasn't actually true was it!
In Scotland they're free despite increased cuts in funding to the NHS in England by the Tories but you all know how that works anyway being experts on Scotland and Scottish politics.
Was great to see so many Junior Doctors applying for positions in Scotland during and after the Junior Doctors strikes in England. Why would they want to come to Scotland? Privatisation of the NHS in England and the fact that the NHS in Scotland (which is devolved) has better statistics in healthcare than England. Wales? Well Labour wrecked the NHS in Wales but you know what happened there.
Looking good that today there's already some big name companies looking to relocate from London to Edinburgh. So the exodus begins and the result isn't a day old yet! This is due to Scotland remaining in the EU and England not but you know this.
Remember the UK debt of £1.7 Trillion. Scotland could in theory walk away without any percentage of the debt. If Scotland takes 8 - 10% of the debt (which would be fair) depending on how it's calculated (Population or Land Mass) then we also take the same percentage of every UK Asset. That would be UK Assets at home and abroad to keep it simple it includes ships, planes, tanks, guns, museums, land owned, money, gold etc. Basically anything at all belonging to the UK. What am I doing you know all this!
No assets = no debt but I'm sure that since you don't have to subsidise the Scots then paying off the £1.7 Trillion Debt will be a piece of cake especially without the oil, gas, renewables, Scottish produce, Scottish exports, Scottish Taxes etc. and that's before you even consider the Scottish Billions that are exported from the City of London and other places due to creative accounting that goes on at the Treasury. There I go again telling you what you already know!
Scotland would also cease to pay for the head of state and her family, extended family, servants, security, castles, etc. So that's an 8% cut in the funding immediately for that lot. Ownership of land in Scotland is already being looked at closely but I apologise for telling you what you already know.
No more Scottish money for the BBC either. Shame that eh!
So the BBC would lose around £234 million in Scottish revenue that's spent outside Scotland. I know you have the figures there but here it is for everyone else. £320 million raised in Licence Fees in Scotland minus the £86 million that's actually spent on Scottish programming by the BBC = £234 million.
You have also heard about the Crown Estate and how much income that makes in Scotland. They have been transferring over the management duties of this to Scotland via the Smith Commission but

you know that anyway.
Scotland and the UK has been gearing up for Independence for years. It is happening and it will work. Tick Tock!