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Sturgeon and Salmond always promised they'd match defence spending in an independent Scotland so that doesn't really fly..

It's clear that the bulk of this deficit is to do with Hollyrood's spending. Scotland's deficit is almost half of the entire UK's, it's 7% of their GDP as opposed to the UK as a whole which is 1.1%. That makes it one of the highest in Europe. The SNP bang on about their love for the EU but remember the measures the EU imposed on Greece, Portugal, Italy etc. when they ran up large deficits