Seventh, Scotland would not be liable for the national debt of the remaining UK. In international law, the debt is the responsibility of the so-called continuing state in the case of a split such as this, and the UK would want to take on that role, and all the agreements and entitlements that go with it, including membership of all the international organisations, such as NATO, of which it is a mmeber, and the UN, where it will not want to give up its seat on the Security Council to Scotpand. So, the only way Scotland could be liable for the debt would be by agreement, and unless the UK actually repays the debt (and it almost never has), then there is no reason at all for Scotland to accept any obligation to repay any part of it either. In other words, this is not an issue.
So, erm, rUK would also still own all government assets in Scotland then, right?
What makes me laugh here is the notion that when you have so many MSPs and other SNP hangers on that have proven to be utterly incompetent, that if they do bounce back because of a Reform victory and Labour wipeout they will allocate a Lords Seat to a South East based septuagenarian grifter. He’d be behind about a thousand genuine Scots who would give their four extremities to get on that gravy train. He’s either idiotic or naive.
Even better: SNP doesn’t nominate for peerages.
Not mutually exclusive, y’know.
Presumably the same logic would apply if England left the UK? The most productive bit, without a lot of socialist MPs and magically no debt.
Only 3 of the 12 regions of the UK are net contributors, so how much richer could England be if we lost the dead weight of the Irish,Scots and Welsh moaners?
Blah, blah, blah. Commie dick Murphy doesn’t get to decide. He can sprinkle his ‘international law’ on his Cheerios.
UK will decide. Scotland splits. UK sends them a bill for a half-trillion pounds. UK has many ways to enforce it.
Hmmm . . . time for renovation of Hadrian’s Wall?
errr…. that’s *NOT* how it works. Departing entities are responsible for their share of the former combined entity’s debt. Negotiations can happen out exaclty how much, yes, but generally, Scotland would be liable for (populationSC*governmentsizeSC)/(populationUK*govermentsizeUK) of (governmentdebtUK+governmentassetsUK) .
Sounds like the rest of the UK should secede from Scotland and leave them with the bag then.
And yet somehow this never applied to the UK leaving the EU….
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Well, it’s just another fantasy manifesto from somebody who will never be in a position to enact anything. He might as well demand that Pitlochry should be rotated 27 degrees counter-clockwise every third Wednesday, for all that it matters.
I think that was listed later under “eleventeenthly”.
“Seventh”?! Is this a list of things that people have got completely wrong?