Who wants to END the UK?
The UK is falling apart at the seams. Unprecedented levels of support for ending the UK have been recorded in each of the UK nations.
49% of English Voters Support ENGLISH Independence
The poll was carried out on behalf of Business for Scotland by Panelbase and surveyed 1,015 English residents between June 29th and July 3rd and asked if people agreed or disagreed with the statement: England should be an independent country and Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland should be allowed to stand on their own two feet.
UK citizens are dying for Brexit - literally
It’s quite extreme to claim the UK Government is deliberately following a policy that will kill potentially tens of thousands of its people, however, all the evidence points that way and it has to be called out.
Small businesses and sole traders left high and dry by UK coronavirus package
Breaking 20/03/2020 - UK economy has collapsed completely - UK Gov to pay people's wages ow.ly/YYAY50yRiBL
UK Government has acted along the lines we suggested in this article and you can read our initial analysis of tonight's announcement via the link above.
Oil - An epic example of Westminster's economic mismanagement
Now, let's look at a specific, epic case study of Westminster's economic mismanagement. Norway and the UK have managed their oil and gas industries very differently, resulting in a substantial contrast of fortunes in their economies. A key argument against independence is the claim that Scotland would be too small a nation to maximise the benefit of its oil and gas industry. However, when comparing the UK and Norway's oil and gas production and the revenues generated from this industry, we can see that Norway has generated £572.7bn more than the UK Government in tax revenues since the production of oil and gas began. 472
Britain's Broken Economy is holding Scotland back
Throughout the articles in this series, we have already seen that the UK is in no position to bail out or subsidise Scotland. In reality, that subsidy has gone the other way. Brexit may be a case study on the Westminster Government's incompetence and following its implementation we have seen:
The Barnett Formula Myth Destroyed - It does not subsidise Scotland
Arguably the most misunderstood part of the UK public sector budgeting mechanism is the Barnett Formula. The vast majority of people, politicians and the media seem to think that Barnett represents a subsidy to Scotland. Many Westminster MPs (mainly Conservatives) have described it as English taxpayers subsidising Scottish public spending, and the mainstream media have run headlines along those lines. There is just one little problem with that idea – it’s complete and utter nonsense.
The Croydon Principle - How Westminster secretly sends Scotland's budget south
Our previous article in this series explained how Scotland is not subsidised. However, there is another spending principle that also removes wealth from Scotland, which I call the Croydon Principle. This is summed up best by the former UK Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, who said:
What now that Boris has said No to a Scottish Independence Referendum?
The UK Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, has written to the Scottish First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, to refuse her demand for Westminster to transfer the power to hold a second independence referendum to the Scottish parliament. The letter contains (attached) a clear falsehood that Nicola Sturgeon promised that the 2014 referendum would be a once in a lifetime opportunity - she said that she thought it would be, but made no such promise. That type of bluster and falsehood may win cheers in Westminster, but it will go down very badly with voters in Scotland.
Boris Johnson is repeating Swinson's error and it will end the Union
The Liberal Democrats had the opportunity of a lifetime to do well and maybe even hold the balance of power in GE 2019. Their stars were aligned but they threw it all away by committing the biggest and most basic error in politics. They adopted an idea that had majority support (stopping Brexit) but they turned it into an undemocratic policy.