we're not going anywhere and everyone will still be welcome. We'll just be joining the rest of the world.
Here are some reasons why it's a good thing we do just that.
Scotland pays more tax per head than the rest of the countries in the UK:
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www.heraldscotland.com]
Our education standards are very high - possibly the best in Europe:
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www.independent.co.uk]
Our economic diversity leads Standard and Poor to believe that we’d qualify for the highest economic rating possible:
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www.businessforscotland.co.uk]
An independent Scotland right now would be the 14th wealthiest country in the world per head of population, according to government figures:
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www.bbc.co.uk]
One report suggests the union has cost Scotland £64bn in the last three decades, due to the fact that we’ve paid more tax per head than the UK average in every one of the last 30 years:
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www.thesundaytimes.co.uk]
If we hadn’t spend the last three decades subsidising British governments who racked up a trillion pounds in debt, we’d actually have a spending surplus, “so big as to be embarrassing” (according to UK government research):
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www.nzherald.co.nz]
In 1997, William Hague insisted that if Scotland voted to have its own parliament, we would be living in a "high-tax ghetto" after five years of devolution:
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www.bbc.co.uk]
The Conservative party have previous for lying to Scotland - for 30 years they and successive Westminster governments buried the same now-famous government report mentioned above that concluded an independent Scotland with North Sea oil revenues would be as rich as Switzerland:
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en.wikipedia.org]
And they continue to lie to us today, telling us that a Scottish Parliament with new powers is the “best of both worlds”, even though they opposed devolution in the first place:
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bettertogether.net]
The idea that Scotland, unique among small, oil rich countries, is incapable of becoming independent, or that to do so would be economically ruinous, stands up to no scrutiny at all, and David Cameron agrees:
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www.yesscotland.net]
And given that inequality in the UK is growing faster than in any other rich country, an independent Scotland would have to become the world leaders just to keep pace with the inequality:
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www.theguardian.com]
Instead, Scotland votes for progressive, left wing policy, and as a result retains free health and education as the English pay £9k for university and advertise £6bn in privatised NHS contracts:
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www.bbc.co.uk]
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www.theguardian.com]
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university.which.co.uk]
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www.theguardian.com]
One million Scots are now living below the poverty line despite the incredible wealth this country has:
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www.dailyrecord.co.uk]
But the Better Together campaign - who have distanced themselves from that moniker of late, possibly because of the inherent irony, believe this is the “best of both worlds” for Scotland:
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bettertogether.net]
Currently, Scotland doesn’t choose its own governments, and it doesn’t influence election results meaningfully. Not a single Prime Minister would have been out of a job over the last five decades if Scotland’s votes were scrapped:
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wingsoverscotland.com]
Scotland’s Westminster governments are therefore unaccountable to Scotland, and are free to introduce policies like the Bedroom Tax with impunity:
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www.yesscotland.net]
There is clear desire in Scotland to address the issues of inequality and share in the wealth of our country, through democratic process:
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en.wikipedia.org]
Our political needs have diverged from the rest of the UK such that the current Conservative government has only one seat in Scotland:
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www.davidmundell.com]
There are presently 192 countries surviving outside of the United Kingdom:
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www.mapsofworld.com]