The UK would have to strike a trade agreement with an independent Scotland
Scotland is the UK’s second-largest national export market. With the dual economic crises of the pandemic and Brexit weakening the UK in the coming decade, London would need a free trade agreement with an independent Scotland.
Why Boris Johnson came to Scotland in panic mode
The UK PM decided to drop everything and head to Scotland to save the union. Most Scottish independence supporters were quite happy about that as they see Johnson as toxic and think such a staged managed visit - as always he avoided meeting real people, just a few hand-picked Scotiaphobes and soldiers who had been ordered to meet him - could even boost support for Scottish independence.
Has being a part of the UK damaged Scotland’s COVID-19 response?
The UK Prime Minister came to Scotland this week in an attempt to protect the rapidly shrinking support for the Union. One of his key points was that being a part of the larger UK will have aided Scotland in dealing with the crisis.
The lies that Scotland was told - Westminster prepares to sell off the NHS
Two of the most effective scare stories deployed in the 2014 referendum by the No campaign were "Vote No to keep Scotland in the EU" - we all know what happened there - and also "Vote No to protect Scotland's NHS".
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: