I have several problems with it.
It's a cynical bribe
It
doesn't add up
What's stopping the SNP from implementing it now?
Is it not presumtious of the SNP to determine the policy of any future Scottish government?
It's an example of the magnitude of the likely independence dividend, in a way people can probably comprehend. It's an attempt to get the message over that Scotland can better afford to be independent than it can afford to keep sending all its money to Westminster and getting pocket-money back, apparently grudgingly.
The main thrust of Project Fear is, don't vote Yes, you'll be bankrupt. It's a bare-faced lie. It's all over the media. The truth has to be presented somehow.
If you don't want Scotland to be independent because you want to live under the union flag and be governed from Westminster (whatever they decide to do to us), then fine, vote No. But there are very many people who
want to vote Yes, but are terrified by the lies. I think it would be a tragedy if a No vote were to come from a population which wanted to vote Yes but had been frightened away by a pack of falsehoods.
You can't just announce "it doesn't add up" as an assertion. I'm not a fan of Max Keiser, but you might look at what he said today - just another one to add to the list of those who've actually worked it out.
How can the SNP take control of all Scotland's revenue and expenditure now? Even you have to see that's a nonsense demand. That's what we're voting on. Whether to allow Holyrood to take that control, or leave it with Westminster.
The SNP can only say, if elected in 2016, these are the policies we would pursue. So this gives you one vision at least of how things can be. The other parties could produce their own visions, but they won't. The SNP's manifesto shows what you
can have, the breadth and scope of change. Other visions may be available from other providers in due course. This is one example.
Do you trust your own representatives in Holyrood with control of all Scotland's assets to administer for the good of Scotland? Or do you prefer to send all the money and all the power to Westminster in the hope that they'll give you some of both back? That's the question, you know.
Aye Rolfe. I'm all over them.
And I'm Cleopatra's auntie.
Seriously, I don't understand you. You seem viscerally and blindly opposed to self-determination for your own country, even in the knowledge that a bunch of other countries no bigger or cleverer than Scotland and with manifestly fewer resources are doing far far better than the mighty UK in all the tables of prosperity and happiness and so on.
You're being offered a prize people have fought and died for, for the price of a cross on a piece of paper. And you won't even peek inside the brochure to see if it might possibly be true.
Rolfe.
