suggs wrote:Perhaps i granted the economic argument too readily. England might be fractionally better off, though i doubt by much (thered be slight increases in the diplomatic service, bureacracy etc)
But even if you had a few more quid in your pocket, when the USA starts to sign biliteral nuclear agreements with scotland etc, Englands impotence would be finally revealed. I'm not a nationalist,but i like to see England look half decent to the rest of the world. What a laughing stock we would become. And with the corresponding decline in investment and tourism, you'd be handing that extra few quid over to Edinburgh in no time at all.
Wee Jock McSuggs.
All these are good points. Even if it seems like on paper we might give more than we take (although I'm not even sure thats the case, I think its one of those 'you can re-do the statistics to prove either argument' things) the general value Scotland brings to the union is immense, both past and present. Without Scotland we lose centuries of combined culture, history and we lost the Scottish people themselves. Our strength is in our diversity, as much as some dislike that term.
