Separating Scotland from the rest of the UK will cost a staggering amount of money when you consider all aspects that will have to be created or taken on by the new Scottish state. A considerable amount of duplication will have to be paid for. Yet the western world is near to bankruptcy; Europe (or more accurately – the Euro) is bankrupt and the UK (as it stands at the moment) is in dire straits financially. Both Scottish banks HBOS and RBS had to be bailed out by the UK tax payer at vast expense and show no real signs of sustained recovery.
So, my question is this; are we really prepared to pour staggering quantities of money that we don’t have down the political drain for a ideological solution to a problem that isn't there.?
It would seem that the SNP think we should
My thoughts exactly. Unless what Salmond really wants is the trappings of power without all the tedious, expensive bureaucracies that are required by a modern sovereign independent state, then the vast amounts of time, effort and money required to duplicate all the existing UK national infrastructure that isn't already devolved is something that nobody can afford right now.