What effect would scottish independence have on the UK tree industry?

[Mull]

General chief of Staff said so.....good enough for me LOL

 

 

 

BBC iPlayer - Bigscreen :: The Andrew Marr Show

 

 

 

Westminster not so daft.......jocks work harder and for less money

 

 

Aye than Londoners!

 

Polish? Don't think so myself.

Seen them here, on a wee island, building houses and 7 of them living in a caravan workin long hours, I take my hat off to them.

[ArthurBottlesworth]

Think your right there mull29....

[ballibeg]

No lender of last resort in Salmond's plans add it stands.

[ArthurBottlesworth]

When you grow up you take responsibility for your own business

 

When your a kid you expect daddy to do it for you

 

Time to grow up .........

 

Especially when daddy is making all sorts of reasons to stop you gowing up......

[woody3]

scotland pays £500 per head of more in tax than england but they get back an extra £1600 per head

 

so it is right that they pay more tax but are £1100 per person, per year better off

 

hence no prescription charges, no university tuition fees and free personal care for the elderly

[daltontrees]

Not good news for the Scottish banking sector this morning. Not only has Standard life (asset management of £240 billion, 5000 employees, 189 years headquartered in Scotland) said it would most likely quit Scotland in the event of Independence, RBS has just posted an operating loss of £8.2 billion. Can an Independent Scotland afford this?

 

Stadard Life actually said that they were making contingency plans to relocate much of their operations from Scotland if tehre was independence without monetary union. They're just saying they as investment managers need monetary stability. Duuuuh! They also said a decade ago that if Scotland got a devolved parliament they would move out. Still waiting...

 

RBS is owned by foreign shareholders (predominantly) and the UK government. Not particularly a scottish problem.

 

Whta I want to know is what will New Scotland Yard be called after inependence. Will it be forced to move to Scotland?

[daltontrees]

scotland pays £500 per head of more in tax than england but they get back an extra £1600 per head

 

so it is right that they pay more tax but are £1100 per person, per year better off

 

hence no prescription charges, no university tuition fees and free personal care for the elderly

 

Surely not? 5 million people times £1100 is £5.5 billion a year. Is that really how much the rest of UK is subsidising Scotland. What about Wales and Northern Ireland? Are they being subsidised too?

[scotspine1]

the debate here in Scotland is turning more toxic as each day goes by

 

it has the potential to cause major problems between friends, family, work colleagues etc, come September it will have reached fever pitch and there will no doubt be some violence between insane pro nationalists and ultra unionists

 

The most worrying aspect is that there could be mass rallies in the big cities by nationalists refusing to accept they've lost the referendum, it'll be like Ukraine is now.

 

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

[Gnome]

it'll be like Ukraine is now.

 

Only wetter!!! And wi bottles of ginger.