Originally Posted by
westlondoncarparts
To put the Saltire over Downing Street and English municipal town halls in an attempt to swing the No vote is a complete insult to the Scottish people.
The phone a friend debacle just shows the poor quality of judgement that we have currently at the top of the British Government.
If there is a Yes vote, there will be an opportunity for an independent Scotland to renationalise the utilities, transport, telecommunications, mail services, etc., using the revenues from Scottish oil and gas so that once again the essential services needed by The People are owned by The People for The People. The profits that currently leave such companies by way of dividends and excessive pay deals for senior management could be reinvested in the businesses if needed or else used to keep prices down.
Independence will give Scotland the opportunity to put resources into building its own future and to make something better than is likely to be possible under Westminster rule. It will be the same kind of seismic difference between Fairfields Yard still standing and John Brown’s bulldozed to the ground.
England will be in for a very rude awakening over the coming years if it is not careful. If there is a Yes vote in Scotland, England will be financially worse off because the difference between tax money raised from Scotland and tax money spent in Scotland will no longer be available to subsidise England. And if the English failure to integrate into the EU and to be an effective player within the EU results in England leaving the EU, there might be political advantages of total control over legislative programmes regained but there will be a very severe hit on the English economy when the customs duties are put in place between England and the EU.
The present UK Government has approximately doubled the UK National debt in nearly five years because it has followed the wrong economic policies. That increase in debt will continue unless there is a significant change in UK Government economic policy. This increase in UK Government debt is a pack of cards waiting to be blown down. The debt situation can only continue for as long as the UK Government continues to manipulate interest rates and keep them close to zero which results in interest rates payable on new debt issued also being very low. If the situation is reached where interest rates cannot be held low for whatever reason, the UK Government will have to pay much higher interest rates on new money borrowed and will start to run into severe cash flow difficulties. If the financial markets lose faith in the Westminster Government at this stage, the situation could be really dire. Ed Miliband and Ed Balls do not seem to have grasped the enormity of the problem and it is difficult to see them doing anything radical enough to address it adequately should they win the next election. This potential mega financial crisis looming ahead for Westminster makes the nonsense of whether supermarket prices in Scotland might be a few pennies higher after Independence fade into oblivion.
For all these reasons England is likely to go down in the coming years and the last thing that Scotland needs is to be part of that downward spiral and to get dragged down by England.
As for IS putting its new HQ up in The Drum, well there are still a few days to go for somebody to raise this false flag. And still there has been no mention of President Putin’s name yet as being behind the Referendum as an attempt to destabilise the UK……….