Is Scotland Big Enough To Go it Alone?

I’m afraid I have to agree. Moreover, Zimbabwe hasn’t had its own currency since 2009. It can get away with that, I don’t think that Scotland can.

A factor could be that they don’t want the same failed immigration policy that is ruining England to ruin Scotland.

Q: What do you call a scottish highlander with four sheep ?

A: A pimp.

Actually the ones tending the sheep and long haired cattle were typically girls.

I was born and raised in a county in Florida which was settled by Highland Scots mainly from the Western Islands.

In 1960, by a large majority most of the people in Walton County had Scottish surnames. They must have been attractive people as my high school was absolutely over run with beautiful girls.

If Scotland secedes do you think they would start exporting their Muzzies back to their respective homelands?

they don’t currently have any way to collect their own: income tax, payroll tax, corporate tax, excise tax. they admit they will be dependent on britain to collect these taxes after “independence” for years to come.

Curiously, every medieval baron was able and very much willing to collect taxes from everyone he could reach. Is the entire Scotland, armed with computers, barcode scanners, and the Internet, less capable than one barely literate man and his ten soldiers?

Otherwise it would appear that only an already independent country can declare independence. This is nonsense, of course. Countries form, merge and fall apart all the time. Yugoslavia separated into several states just ten or fifteen years ago. They are doing fine.

I doubt that but they could better contain the disease.

Judging from past election results, independent Scotland would be overwhelmingly socialist. Very possibly Muslims from the suddenly more conservative “UK” would relocate to Scotland.

As the author points out, any small nation can succeed, but Scots will need to lose their addiction to welfare and government employment first.

That's the key, and from the looks of things, the Scots are rushing into this without stopping to think about what it is they'd like to become, apart from "not English."

“Is the entire Scotland, armed with computers, barcode scanners, and the Internet, less capable than one barely literate man and his ten soldiers?”

oh they will get there eventually. Maybe in 2022 when they finally issue their own drivers licenses.

think of how well obamacare has gone - that’s just one program

before “independence” scotland has to set up the equivalent of: the IRS, social security administration, medicare, medicaid, food stamps, head start, subsidized housing administration, USPS, ... none of these things exist as separate entities in scotland right now

how long do you think it will take to do that little lot ?

Judging from past election results, independent Scotland would be overwhelmingly socialist. Very possibly Muslims from the suddenly more conservative “UK” would relocate to Scotland.

Socialist yes, but also nationalistic.

The Scots are proud of the heritage, more so than the English, and they certainly don't trust non-drinkers....:^)

before “independence” scotland has to set up the equivalent of: the IRS, social security administration, medicare, medicaid, food stamps, head start, subsidized housing administration, USPS, ... none of these things exist as separate entities in scotland right now -- how long do you think it will take to do that little lot ?

Six months top. All done in parallel, by different people. For example, how much time would you need to set up a postal service if you already have local carriers and trucks and offices? (I don't think that any of that is done by personnel that drives to work every morning from London.)

All this had been done on more than one occasion in history. It will be easier today because you can borrow best practices from similar systems of other countries. They will be even happy, for a small fee, to send you some of their experienced people to get you started. None of this is rocket science. It's actually rather trivial. In many cases all that needs to change in the org chart is reporting. Do not forget, human resources are plentiful, and most are already familiar with their jobs, no matter if they are "separate entities" or subdivisions of some department of UK. Physically, the social worker and the mail carrier and the policeman are all local people. Now they will have a local boss, and the local Treasury will be financing them.

Still Report #322 - Scotland: Black Swan?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWnFVqX79DY

Are there any Muslims in Scotland?

small countries just don’t have the money to engage in truly crazy ideas. Like Wars on Terror or world-wide daisy-chains of military bases.

No, so they must be defended by the countries that can maintain world-wide daisy-chains of military bases.

another advantage of smaller nations is that they tend to be more ethnically and culturally homogeneous, a thing that is the more quickly threatened for all that by ill-informed immigration policy.

Two important points in one. They can quickly commit suicide by ill-considered immigration policy. Independence doesn't mean much if they are still ruled by non-scots.

A dynamic economy will usually need to allow fairly free movement of people and money. But they must be clear with themselves that they are a small country and opening themselves to people who will never assimilate culturally defeats the very purpose of independence.

The Scottish Nationalist are NOT a bunch of freedom loving free market capitalist conservatives....They are big government welfare state leftist.

Here are some of their platform.

1. They fear that welfare payments will be cut. Instead they pledge to increase welfare payments.

2. They claim that the government is planning to privatize all or some of the National Health System. They pledge to expand the NHS.

3. They want Scotland to adopt the Euro and give more power to the EU.

4. They want open border immigration.

5. They want no waiting period for immigrants to get benefits.

6. They want to nationalize major industries and banks.

A vote for separation is a vote to destroy Scottish nationality. As if that's a bad thing.

Alex 'Butcher' Salmond has destroyed Scotland [windfarms]

10/20/2012 6:28:13 AM PDT · by Cincinatus' Wife · 25 replies
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Nope, that woud be Norway. Scotland has the lion’s share of the current figure for the UK, but part of those will remain, uh, English.

/bingo

That’s exactly what the separation is supposed to accomplish.