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The most serious failure of the SNP’s latest independence paper is that it completely ducks the question of how an independent Scotland would get its public finances onto a sustainable footing.
October 10, 2025 at 9:17 AM
The most serious failure of the SNP’s latest independence paper is that it completely ducks the question of how an independent Scotland would get its public finances onto a sustainable footing.
Alf Young on Full Fiscal Arithmetic, in today’s Sunday Times.
June 1, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Alf Young on Full Fiscal Arithmetic, in today’s Sunday Times.
“So the fiscal transfer of £12.9 billion in 2023-24 was really the best case (but wholly implausible) scenario for the size of the hole full fiscal autonomy would have created in the Scottish Government’s budget.”
May 30, 2025 at 11:09 AM
“So the fiscal transfer of £12.9 billion in 2023-24 was really the best case (but wholly implausible) scenario for the size of the hole full fiscal autonomy would have created in the Scottish Government’s budget.”
The UK Government should take seriously the Scottish Government’s request for full fiscal autonomy, and ask it to answer the following questions.
May 30, 2025 at 7:55 AM
The UK Government should take seriously the Scottish Government’s request for full fiscal autonomy, and ask it to answer the following questions.
Alex Massie, in today’s Sunday Times.
February 9, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Alex Massie, in today’s Sunday Times.
As the salience of independence as an issue has declined, the SNP has enjoyed a bounce in the polls. This is not a coincidence. Independence as an abstract and distant concept is much more popular than the painful details.
December 24, 2024 at 10:17 AM
As the salience of independence as an issue has declined, the SNP has enjoyed a bounce in the polls. This is not a coincidence. Independence as an abstract and distant concept is much more popular than the painful details.