A Low key launch yesterday for the Scotland independence campaign. I have written repeatedly of why I am a passionate Unionist, but in no way could the SNP campaign be described as being based in the real world.
Scotland will face £6 billion of extra taxes according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies forecasts, if their country’s Government is not simply to borrow the money instead - and we know that did not work well for the last Labour government. But instead of that happening, the SNP say Scotland’s economy will grow at two per cent more than that of the United Kingdom in the next 50 years, an achievement that no European country has clocked up in the past 50 years, all whilst the decline in north sea oil will suddenly and inexplicably be reversed.
The new country will automatically be able to join the EU if it wishes. No Scottish defence jobs will go, all pension liabilities will be sorted, and the NHS will continue as is in an indpendent Scotland.... this is la la land politics.
No wonder support for independence in Scotland stands at about 30 per cent in the polls. No answer on the currency, the costs of separation, etc. I could go on. So today I was pleased to meet, and support, many of the key producers in Scotland, when they held Scotland day in westminster hall. None of the businesses I met were speaking up for the Independence campaign.
