It's going to be hard for Scots I think, because the SNP have essentially lied to us so much about the state of the countrys finances, their budget for example is pure pie in the sky. There just isn't enough money to pay for everything they've said they'll do. There's going to be horrific cuts.
And I think independence would be worse. Scotland has this major problem that out of anywhere in the UK, we have the greatest proportion of people employed by the councils. It's close to 50%. So we have the situation where half the country is working to pay the taxes to pay the wages for the other half.
For Scotland to be independant, I would guess something in the region of 25% of people who work for the councils and the state would have to be made unemployed.
And really the only answer the SNP have to fill the black hole in the budget is just to start borrowing massive sums of money and running up a huge deficit. Which, as we've seen with Ireland/Iceland/Greece, just doesn't work out well in the end.
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And I think independence would be worse. Scotland has this major problem that out of anywhere in the UK, we have the greatest proportion of people employed by the councils. It's close to 50%. So we have the situation where half the country is working to pay the taxes to pay the wages for the other half.
For Scotland to be independant, I would guess something in the region of 25% of people who work for the councils and the state would have to be made unemployed.
And really the only answer the SNP have to fill the black hole in the budget is just to start borrowing massive sums of money and running up a huge deficit. Which, as we've seen with Ireland/Iceland/Greece, just doesn't work out well in the end.