valR
The Scottish Government intends to hold a referendum of the Scottish electorate
on the issue of independence from the United Kingdom in the autumn of 2014.
How will the individual Scotland citizen be impacted by it?
Are you for or against it?
9 Answers
Jack Large
I personally do not have an opinion, but from what I have read, the number of Scots in favor is less than 40%, in recent polls.
| 12 years ago. Rating: 7 | |
daren1
ROMOS
Sorry valR I missed this Q.
If you had asked me 35yrs ago when they were just opening up the oil fields in the North Sea I would have cut Scotland off from the rest of the UK forever and we would have benefited immensely from the income produced, and still would have been by the way.
Now, I,m not so sure.
Because of previous Conservative governments destroying Scottish industries and Westminster drawing every bit of oil revenue to benefit mainly those in the prosperous SE UK without investing it elsewhere I don,t think it could or would be economically viable for Scotland to seek independence anymore, "unfortunately".
It will be a sad day for me and many more Scots when we vote NO in the referendum but our little country cannot afford to go it alone any more (in my opinion),
We do have our own devolved Parliament however and we are gaining more power and tax raising revenue for our own country.
Scottish born and bred, PROUD TO BE A TRUE SCOT!
KOTF
| 12 years ago. Rating: 5 | |
Shootah
I'm from the United States, and I really don't have an opinion either. I think it should go the way the people of Scotland want it. But you have to be careful of what anyone from America says, the last time they mentioned anything about pulling away from England, they ended up with the Revolutionary War!
| 12 years ago. Rating: 5 | |
doolittle
nomdeplume
I am a Scot by birth and consider that Scottish independance is a nonsense. The Scots will continue to demand aid from the rest of the UK to pay for their appalling health problems largely caused by poor diet and excessive alcohol consumption.
| 12 years ago. Rating: 4 | |
Daisy!
I think it would be a bad decision. There has always been a shortage of jobs in Scotland. There is a drinking problem and increase knife fights. I don't see how they can afford to stand without England. I don't get all the news, so I don't know what all is involved. I just think it would be a poor choice.
| 12 years ago. Rating: 4 | |
This "tax cuts for the rich," is all crap! Every time you or I made more money in our life we paid MORE taxes and we paid the taxes as a HIGHER rate as well.
When my income doubled, I paid more than DOUBLE the amount of tax, when my income doubled again I paid more than DOUBLE the amount of tax AGAIN.
Not too many years ago the average working man in the US was in the 15% tax bracket, now the average working man in the US was in the 28% tax
The ONLY real tax cut in my life time was to the POOR, under George W Bush, who lowered the minumun tax rate for the working man down to 10%, from the 15% that had always been the minimum tax rate since the Feds started to tax imcome, rather than property
| 12 years ago. Rating: 4 | |
jhharlan
