What was the first question?Tangled Metal wrote: ↑13 Oct 2021, 1:22pm The other question is did people really vote leave because of the lies on the bus.
Sort of, according to polls taken after the event. The top three reasons to vote Leave were:
1. the principle that decisions about the UK should be taken in the UK;
2. regaining control over immigration and borders;
3. having little or no choice about how the EU expanded its membership or powers.
Of course, 1 is what's known as subsidiarity which was entrenched in the EU during the time of Thatcher and Major; 2 was always the case but the UK repeatedly chose not to exert control under Major and Blair; and 3 is bizarre because the UK had a veto as an EU member and no say once we left.
That EU membership didn't give us those aren't the money/NHS lies on the side of the bus, but they are all lies that appeared in Leave leaflets before the vote.
No, that was just about the impact on Scottish exports. Mark Blyth also said "There are real fiscal challenges getting there [independence] that cannot be wished away. But the long-term costs of staying tied to the UK’s rapidly imploding growth model are just as bad.”As to Scottish independence, wasn't it the SNP's economic guru who said independence would be like Brexit but 10 times worse? If that's the Scottish way out you're in it for the long game that's for sure. A big choice braveheart!
Did you not know that, or were you asking a misleading question on purpose?