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Ref and VAR bottled it. Robertson should have been off. Absolute dumpling thing tae dae.. He got away with one. Quiet word needed...He is the captain ffs.

El Pais It was the poor pitch and two "accidents" that done for them according to their coach. https://elpais.com/deportes/2023-03-28/de-la-fuente-sigo-convencido-de-que-este-es-el-camino.html Good deflection coach...but the reality is that your team are a pale comparison to the Spain teams of recent years. All fart and nae jobby. Scotland can get a result in the away leg as well.

This Spain team are a long way off what they were. It was a good solid home result. That is it.

FFS... 1. There is no 20-odd billion Barnett bonus. The Barnett formula provides return based on a population based share of the money Scots tax payers have already paid Westminster to invest on projects (unsurprisingly mainly in and around London and the South East). We DO NOT receive back any of the associated multiplied effect economic (and therefore revenue) growth inspired by our share of that initial investment. That economic growth is often very much localised in the area the investment is made. Subsequent revenue raised is assigned to that particular region. As the term "multiplier" would suggest the revenue raised is often multiples of the initial spend. We give a broker money to invest in a stock. The stock price rises (sometimes by multiples). The broker gives us back our initial investment and keeps the profit. The broker then claims we owe him money. Sorry to dent your Daily Express reader levels of comprehension with regards to the workings of the public economy.........but the rest of the UK...and very much so Scotland........are subsidising London and the South East. 2. It might have been a while since you last visited, but Scotland is actually quite a developed nation now with much of the infrastructure and agency required by a sovereign state. Any initial costs will likely be massively dwarfed by future savings.

And yet he chose to stay in Scotland.... Anyway....... what we have at the moment is a devolved gov with limited revenue raising capability. Much of these limited powers are currently used attempting the mitigation of the Westminster shitshow. That being the case, the fiscal levers that Scotgov do possess under devolution are only ever going to be used to increase taxation. It's a trap. An independent state has access to the full set of fiscal levers and monetary policy. There is nothing to suggest iScotland will be poorer than rUK. Therefore nothing to suggest direct taxation will necessarily be higher this side of the border. It may be the opposite.

So after furious googling that's the best that you can come up with. The Finnish experience likely has no relevance to Scotland. Indeed had you actually read it fully, the author of your first link specifically states his view is that the Finnish experience is likely to be reversed in the case of an independent Scotland. Why would there be a flow of migration from the wealthier Northern part of this island to the poorer Southern bit, once the North finally decides to end its subsidy. Its clearly much more likely to be the opposite.

Made up nonsenese and hyperbole. Again there is no evidence that what you are suggesting happens in similar normal countries.

Barring Iceland, all the other countries I mentioned, share land borders with larger neighbours. What makes England so special?

Aye....cos that is what happens in Denmark, Ireland, Iceland, Norway and all the other normal countries. What a load of tosh.

^^This.... but these "its left a left wing" party numpties just don't get it. Scotland is hamstrung under devolution.......and that cannot be neaningfully changed until independence. The SNP needs to appeal across the political spectrum with the unifying factor being independence as the first and foremost political priority.

No sensible commentator wants "Indy now"..... but it's not really that complicated. There is a natural majority in Scotland for independence. Forget all the wind and p@sh socially divisive stuff. That can wait until after independence. It's the economy stupid. Get that right. Get the currency and pension arguments sorted.

You don't half make up some nonsense. Who said anything about Ash being a credible candidate. I would suggest that those who continuously backed the ongoing worsening calamity that was the Sturgeon/Murrell run SNP are those guilty of suffering from delusions.

For goodness sake....we have had one poster going on about "the lunatic fringe" and now "roasters." These are fellow independence supporters. Sturgeons reign really has damaged the SNP.

That's some take tbh........because given the absolute mess the cultural warriors and devolutionists have made it would appear that it has been the lunatic fringe in charge of the SNP these last few years. This is an opportunity for the party to refocus on things that actually matter. Like independence for example.

You can if there is a big enough issue to unite around.......and a leader capable enough to push that issue forward. Salmond could.....Sturgeon couldn't. She knew that. That's why she jumped.

Anyone visiting Naples for more than a couple of days should definitely consider this: https://www.campaniartecard.it/pass/ 32 euros for the wider Campania area and includes public transport, entrance to pompeii, herculaneum, the Naples museum etc. Saved us a lot of money.

Vote Forbes!!

I love visiting places of historic significance. We are pretty fortunate in Scotland. Lots of great, terrible, good, evil, brilliant, despicable events have happened in the streets and countryside all around us in our 2100 years of recorded history. There is so much to learn and see. One of my favourite youtube channels is this guys. I recommend.... Particularly if you live in or have an interest in the Scottish Borders. Great info about forgotten people and events from long ago that happened in places only a short drive away. You can visit a lot of these places and literally be the only soul who has visited that day.

Lol.....She is likely to become the next leader of the independence movement. The leadership election is Alternative vote. Humza may well win the first round but with no outright majority.... at which point the 3rd placed candidate is eliminated (most probably Regan)and their 2nd preference votes transfer. I strongly suspect most Regan supporters 2nd vote going to Forbes. Humza ain't going to be first minister. I hope Kate Forbes continues to grow in your estimation

Some fair points in that. I know the indy campaign was a composite, but the SNP leader, like it or not, is (was?) the leader of the wider independence movement. Many of those votes and election wins over the last 8 years have in reality been yes votes....not for Sturgeon.....not really even for the SNP as a party. As the leader of the independence movement, she has some culpability for it coming apart. Sadly the fact remains, that after 8 years in charge we are no closer to independence. If anything further away. That is the real failure.

You don't need to wait. The wider independence movement fractured... possibly irreconcilably... during the Sturgeon premiership. The coming weeks will also likely see the SNP tear chunks out itself. This in part due to the current leaders sudden unplanned and unmanaged departure. I don't really care about the SNP per se. I do care about the damage all this will do to the credibilty of independence.

Sturgeon managed to surf along for years on the back of the 2014 yes vote.....but built nothing. Her failed leadership has left an absolute divided mess.

Whoever can reverse the disaster for Scotlands future public economy that is the Scotwind project would get my vote.

Anyone who is thinking of voting for Starmers labour is voting for brintnat torys wearing a red rosette.