Last week, I got into a flurry of tweets about the indyref debate in Scotland. It amazes me what some of the ideas floating about are. A lot of it all seemed frankly quite anti English, which doesn't bode well for any possible negotiations following a yes vote. Some of the difficulties are illustrate in this David Aaronovitch article (unfortunately behind a paywall).
Some of the tweets I got were claiming that continuing union would result in the privatisation of the NHS (despite the Scottish NHS being devolved to Holyrood, and therefore not subject to the votes of rUK MPs), someone thought the Barnett formula would disappear unless she voted yes (which of course is precisely how you guarantee the disappearance of the Barnett formula), other people objected to the possibly that people outside Scotland might vote differently from Scots (Well yes, but that would also be true of a purely Scottish election.
There still seem to be no answers to the points I suggested some years ago. And of course, more doubts have been raised about EU membership and so on. A whole host of issues have been raised in the blogosphere that no one seems to be answering. Nonetheless, there is substantial support for a yes vote, despite Alex Salmond's failure to answer these objections.
UPDATE
I have responded to the commentator below here.
2 comments:
Scotland = a country = people of Scotland can make their own decisions about themselves.
Anti-English? God forbid any of the nations (celtic or otherwise) should harbour such feelings towards 'Britain' and her empire, its history, its damage to the 'first nations' of most countries that she's been involved in.
All is forgiven. We can love you but we want to leave you. Keep the Conservatives for yourselves too.
A vote for independence is a vote for independence - not a vote for the SNP.
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