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Old 14-10-2016, 11:28 AM #71
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Originally Posted by Niamh. View Post
Does who have their own government?
Scotland. Their government has control over its own spending. Scotland has free prescriptions, England, Wales and NI don't. Scotland have free University education. Due to the Barnett formula more is spent on each Scottish person than any country in the union. Scotland is hardly an oppressed entity under the jackboots of Westminster.

From a personal stand point for my whole life we've been family and I'd hate see hundreds of years of family history end but if Scotland chose to go I doubt it would in reality make a lot of difference to me in England. I do think though that Scotland would struggle. All the welfare, free prescriptions, free university education, they already overspend, how would they continue as they are? If they lost all that, they would not be happy with the dear old SNP.
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