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January 19th, 2007 at 8:11 pm
Uh, no.
The English (well, London, really) subsidises Scotland to the tune of a few thousand quid per scot anually. And independent Scotland would mean a tax cut and a perminent Tory majority.
As the inestimable Simon Heffer wrote earlier this week:
The English must be allowed the same democratic rights as the Scots. If this means there is never a Labour government at Westminster again, because of the loss of Scottish lobby-fodder, then that is a blow we shall just all have to learn to bear.
Read the whole thing ™
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2007/01/17/do1701.xml