Originally Posted by
secrets in symmetry
That's a great post John, but you've missed a couple more U turns by Wee Fat Eck's Selfish Numpties Party:
A few years ago, they wanted to take us out of the EU, then they became pro-EU and pro-EURO - before their recent anti-Euro U turn.
They were anti NATO for years, until a few weeks ago when they decided they wanted to join NATO.
It's interesting that you also realised they are the selfish party, and (in an older post) that their budget sums are based on oil tax revenue from 2008-09, which was the highest ever(?) at that time (at £11.9 billion IIRC) - as opposed to 1991-92, which was the lowest at just over £1 billion, again IIRC). Fiscal stability for a seceded Scotland that needs circa £10 billion of oil revenues to balance the budget? Aye right, Eck!
I vaguely remember someone quoting the oft-made claim that Scotland would be the sixth richest country in the world circa 6 years after independence. This assumed the seceded economy would expand at the rate Ireland "naturally" expanded in the 90s/00s - which is one of the most ridiculous claims that even the Selfish Party has ever made! The claim was originally made by some libertarian free-market nutter (from the Adam Smith Institute IIRC) whose assumptions about the "natural" expansion of the Irish economy were so absurd that they were essentially downright lies.
SNP fraudulent bean counting for a seceded Scotland is based on the current economies of the various parts of the UK - which is inconsistent with so many changes that would take place. Surprisingly, many economists make the same mistake.
As for the reasoning given for secession on the Women for Independence website, it was worse than even I expected! Vapid twaddle is too kind. These women surely have too much time on their hands - you might think they'd been in jail with nothing better to do. Wait a minute, Carolyn Leckie was in jail, although not at the same time as her old mentor Tommy Sheridan....