Alex Salmond and Jon Snow – coalitions and Scotland’s fiscal autonomy
Posted on May 8th, 2010 by admin
Jon Snow asks Alex Salmond the by now all too familiar questions about what he would do if Cameron or Brown phoned him offering a deal. The First Minister is amused but patient, as always, and gives the same consistent answers he has given throughout the campaign.
Snow then gets on to the cuts, and gets equally familiar answers about Trident, ID cards, the House of Lords, etc.
Then he advances the unionist canard that Scotland can only afford its caring social policies because of English handouts. After a mild slap on Snow’s wrist about the theft of Scottish oil, Alex offers him the complete answer – give Scotland full fiscal economy and then both England and Scotland can stop moaning at each other and be friends and neighbours.
Why won’t Westminster do it?
Well, we know why – it’s about control, control, control, and the gnawing fear that torments every unionist – the certain knowledge that Scotland would prosper and embarrass the rump of the UK.
Saor Alba!
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