No Plausible Indy Plans

The SNP are just separatists who want to break Scotland away from the rest of the UK at any cost and aren’t offering genuine, viable independence. They have completely failed to devise a remotely plausible economic plan for a separate Scotland and even their own economic advisor, Andrew Wilson, who drew up Alex Salmond’s embarrassingly economically illiterate 2013 White Paper on Independence, subsequently admitted that they were wrong:

https://dailybusinessgroup.co.uk/2017/03/snp-growth-guru-admits-party-was-wrong-on-oil/

Then to cap it all, the then SNP deputy leader, Nicola Sturgeon herself admitted the SNP had been wrong to base their plans on the price of oil:

Nicola Sturgeon admits independence oil figures were wrong, Daily Telegraph.

Added to this, the then SNP leader Alex Salmond’s predictions for the price of oil on which he based his whole economic plans were later proved to have been overestimated by a staggering 1, 600 times. If Scotland had voted ‘yes’ in 2014, she’d have been thrown into a state of real economic disaster which would have very greatly exacerbated the severe economic problems she’d have faced during the subsequent Covid19 pandemic.

The Work of the Growth Commission in 2018

Their 2018 Growth Commission Report was another complete dud. Its conclusions that allegedly drew on the experiences of other small countries like New Zealand and Norway and which asserted that a Scotland separated from the rest of the UK could build up a similar sized sovereign fund were flatly contradicted by these countries themselves who pointed out that it took them 30 years to build up a sizeable fund and their economies were of a different kind and so the SNP were comparing apples and oranges. Once again, the SNP was wrong on the assumptions behind their plans for ‘independence’:

New Zealand model may not be right for Scotland, warns Kiwi MP, The Scotsman.

Alex Salmond refuses to back down after Norway says ‘we’re not like Scotland’, The Daily Telegraph.

The separatists have compounded their ill-considered plans for separation with a bizarrely flip-flopping, contradictory policy on currency, initially insisting on retaining a fiscal union with the rest of the UK by keeping the Bank of England in charge of Scotland’s economic policy after ‘independence’. How can they claim they are advocating genuine independence when a ‘foreign’ country (the rUK) would be controlling Scotland’s economy? They can’t and the reality is that the SNP’s proposals are an illogical rag bag of half-baked notions with little or no credibility to them.

They then conveniently changed their mind and insisted there would be a new Scottish currency, only to have these plans trashed by experts who revealed that such a currency would be worth 20% less (at least) than Sterling:

https://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/scottish-independence-average-household-faces-20-hit-to-income-under-loss-of-pound-due-to-independence-expert-forecasts-3916525

This bizarre nature of the SNP’s ‘independence’ plans is further highlighted by the SNP’s conflicted attitude to the EU. They viciously decry how Scotland is supposedly ruled by far away dictatorial London in the UK Union but advocate allowing Scotland to be ruled by diktat from the far away autocratic and dictatorial EU (65% of all Scotland’s domestic policies would be controlled by mandatory regulations decided by the EU):

Two-thirds of laws in Britain over the past two decades ‘have been inspired by Brussels’, Daily Mail.

Scotland’s Influence in the UK

In the UK Union, Scotland enjoys wide-ranging influence over the formulation and implementation of UK policy. She has provided 10 Prime Ministers and several cabinet ministers who have held positions of considerable power and influence over UK wide matters. What’s more, the Scottish electorate has directly decided the result of UK General Elections (I.e. who governs the UK) 4 times since 1945:

The general elections where Scotland decided who ran the UK, The Daily Telegraph.

The SNP are a sham. They are xenophobic little Scotlanders, monomaniacal and pathological about forcing Scotland out of the UK against the will of the pro-UK majority of Scots clearly stated in most opinion polls (see here for details: https://www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/news/politics/merry-christmas-everyone-union-clear-34367595)

and

https://ballotbox.scot/independence, with no viable plans (especially for the economy) on how they would run an independent Scotland. They can’t be trusted.

(Does not represent the view of Scotland Matters)