I'm not aware of any proponents of independence who expect the current fiscal transfers to continue afterwards.NATURAL ANKLING wrote: ↑22 Aug 2021, 10:30amI don't really care what Scotland do but I do care that if the financial situation was to take downturn in Scotland, How many years will they expect us to prop them up, I'm thinking that the political Scotland Hasn't really thought about how they're really going to finance independence true independent that is.
The prime minister will be hard pressed to justify ever ending financial support for Scotland whilst they rule themselves?
And there's been a vast amount of work on an independent Scotland's economy, much of it linked upthread. The loss of current transfers would be a problem, trade with England/ rump UK would be a problem, greater autonomy would bring opportunities, Membership of the EU would bring opportunities. I don't think that anyone's hiding the scale of the problems.
Jonathan