Scottish trade with UK four times that of trade with eu

[chopper]

doesn't mean they are all going to start eating porridge oats and drinking whisky.

More than 90% of Scotch Whisky produced is sold outside the UK. Indeed, Scotch Whisky is the biggest single net contributor to the UK's balance of trade in goods, and without this contribution the UK's trade deficit would be over 10% larger. Moreover, of the £3.8 billion worth of Scotch exported last year, £1.2bn - almost a third of the total - was shipped to the EU.

Scotch Whisky will not face a tariff on exports to the EU. 0% is the current EU tariff and World Trade Organisation (WTO) rules mean it won't change.

Scotch Whisky Association - Brexit - what now for Scotch Whisky?

[chopper]

Oh and London lose its financial services? Ha. Haha. Hahahahaha. You're more sensationalist than the Fail, Express and Graun put together. It'll lose a small fraction of the business for the passporting part and that's only if no deal is done.

Brexit will cause HSBC to shift 1,000 jobs out of London, if financial passporting is lost.

Sounds like a big number, but what about the 8000 job cuts HSBC announed in 2015 which were nothing to do with Brexit?

So the number lost will be irrelevantly small if passporting is lost.

[chopper]

Mates? The same ones that have inflicted Tory government after Tory government upon us? If we're a union of equals why is poverty so rife in Scotland (as reported today)? The Scottish parliament is improving things surely but slowly, it's not something you can turn around in an instant.

Lovely Alternative Facts you have there
Scotland gets the Government it Wants at Westminster, Two out of Three Times

"Out of the 18 General Elections since 1945, Scotland has got the party at Westminster which won the Scottish popular vote 12 times."

In 1951, England voted Labour, Scotland voted Conservative. The Scottish vote turned into a UK Conservative government.

So your often spouted crap about inflicted government is just that - total ballcocks. Scotland gets the Westminster government it votes for, more often than not, and has in the past inflicted a Tory government on rUK.

[chopper]

The UK is doing the same thing as a whole to the EU. Scotland needs control of its own taxes, the whole works.

That can only be gained through independence.

Scotland already has the power to change income tax. It has chosen not to do so.

Within the EU, Scotland would not be free to set VAT as it choses.

[chopper]

After both referendums the simple truth is far more people in Scotland wanted to remain with the EU than the UK.

Also a simple truth that far more people in Scotland wanted to remain with the UK than wanted to leave the UK.

[LondonManc]

Brexit will cause HSBC to shift 1,000 jobs out of London, if financial passporting is lost.

Sounds like a big number, but what about the 8000 job cuts HSBC announed in 2015 which were nothing to do with Brexit?

So the number lost will be irrelevantly small if passporting is lost.

Absolutely correct. We're letting the facts get in the way of scooter's bleeding heart moaning though. Shame on us.

Lovely Alternative Facts you have there
Scotland gets the Government it Wants at Westminster, Two out of Three Times

"Out of the 18 General Elections since 1945, Scotland has got the party at Westminster which won the Scottish popular vote 12 times."

In 1951, England voted Labour, Scotland voted Conservative. The Scottish vote turned into a UK Conservative government.

So your often spouted crap about inflicted government is just that - total ballcocks. Scotland gets the Westminster government it votes for, more often than not, and has in the past inflicted a Tory government on rUK.

Forget that, the Scots are over-represented in the House of Commons as it is. UKIP won more votes in the last election than the SNP did in the last five put together, yet they only get one seat. Absolute filth.

[scooterscot]

Scotland already has the power to change income tax. It has chosen not to do so.

Within the EU, Scotland would not be free to set VAT as it choses.

But it could change corporation tax.

It could alter road tax.

[chopper]

Let Scotland remain in the EU. Remainder of the UK negotiates a free-trade with Scotland. Scotland has free trade with the EU. Hey presto, Scotland becomes UK's tariff-free gateway in to the EU. Everybody wins!

Of course, Scotland wouldn't be free to negotiate any kind of free-trade with rUK. Being in the EU would prevent that.

[chopper]

Forget that, the Scots are over-represented in the House of Commons as it is. UKIP won more votes in the last election than the SNP did in the last five put together, yet they only get one seat. Absolute filth.

Actually, I disagree with that. Scotland is perfectly represented. The number of MPs with Scottish contituencies is roughly proportional to Scottish population as part of the population as a whole.

What you mean is the SNP are overrepresented, but that's our FPTP system for you.

[scooterscot]

Of course, Scotland wouldn't be free to negotiate any kind of free-trade with rUK. Being in the EU would prevent that.

Why would we want a free trade deal with the UK?

Is it not already clear wages are already depressed at the expense of cheap labour in the north compared to other parts of the UK for the same job? That was part of my reason for choosing not to work in Scotland post graduation. Do the same job in England and be paid near twice as much as that in Scotland despite working for the same company. You'd need to be mad to call the UK a union of equals.