Believe in Scotland in the UK
The SNP’s latest gimmick seems to be an old gimmick, a very old and discredited one. [INSERT COUNTRY] is independent. If Scotland were independent, we would be like [INSERT COUNTRY]. The selected countries have been far and wide over the years. Iceland , until the collapse, Ireland similarly until their financial crisis (but that seems to be back again), even New Zealand . Furthermore, the Growth Commission also shoved in Hong Kong and Singapore. More recently, Denmark is getting a heavy push from Lesley Riddoch . This has all been ridiculed, even by their own side. Mark Blyth, a recent convert to Scottish Independence, specifically called out this sort of road to nowhere. “What we’ve got is ‘Denmark is awesome, we should be like Denmark! … no, you wouldn’t be Denmark, Denmark took 600 years to become Denmark.’” As Blyth says, the point about independence is to recognise where you are right now, state where you want to be, and set out how doing X, Y, and Z will take you to that bette