"Professor Brian Ashcroft, policy director of the pro-Union economic think-tank, the Fraser of Allander Institute, was filmed arguing that Scotland would be more prosperous as a separate country th...
"Professor Brian Ashcroft, policy director of the pro-Union economic think-tank, the Fraser of Allander Institute, was filmed arguing that Scotland would be more prosperous as a separate country than having full tax-raising powers as part of the UK."
Brian Ashcroft is the husband of the current Scottish Labour leader, Wendy Alexander, who promotes fiscal autonomy for Scotland.
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Yep, Scottish labour are a joke, they spend all their campaign making up lies about the SNP, by the end of it i thought that labour were some paranoid group of people that thought SNP meant end of the world. The SNP are the only party for scotland and scottish labour, scottish torys and scottish lib dems just serve their HQ in Lonodon and do anything to stop us getting independence, even if that means lieing.
I know that this is only a short clip. However, if it is indicative of the rest of the presentation, I hope that no-one actually paid to hear this man waffle on. like so many of these so-called "consultants", he seems to have about as much charisma as a ten-year-old burnt kipper!
Thank god someone put this on the web - at least that way some people will see it! The cover-up of this news in the "Scottish media" is a disgrace and shows how firmly the papers still stand with the status quo. Obviously Wendy and Gordon have called in favours with every editor they have ever slipped a story to.
Odd that he compares the UK to these other small countries instead of comparing Scotland and her GDP. Having said that, to have the same GDP/Capita as Sweden, even if it is less than that of the UK, would be wonderful and far from the doom and gloom predicted by some Unionists.
Perhaps it's hard to come by GDP/capita figures for Scotland alone for the very reason that it isn't (yet) an independent country and is tied to England & Wales. Norway and even Ireland have a higher GDP/capita than Sweden (and the UK) and I think Scotland could attain a GDP/capita nearer to that of Norway, as both countries have lots of oil.
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Scottish labour are a joke, they spend all their campaign making up lies about the SNP, by the end of it i thought that labour were some paranoid group of people that thought SNP meant end of the world. The SNP are the only party for scotland and scottish labour, scottish torys and scottish lib dems just serve their HQ in Lonodon and do anything to stop us getting independence, even if that means lieing.