Well done Scotland voting to give Swinney and his incompetent activists another 5 years on the gravy train. You do know that there will be NO independence? He’s duped you all.
Scotland 5.5m people - Half the population are on some form of benefits, the rest that aren’t around 20-24% of that group are public sector workers paid for by the taxpayer.
The private sector, the bit that actually generates the wealth is stagnant & diminishing, while benefit dependency and long-term sickness explode.
@theSNP has run Scotland for nearly 20 years.
Result? A structural deficit so huge the rest of the UK sends us £26 billion every year just to keep the lights on.
Without that subsidy we’d be bankrupt.
We are being run into the ground by people who think more spending, more welfare and more grievance equals progress.
The numbers don’t lie. Scotland’s dependency culture is unsustainable and the SNP has zero credible plan to fix it
Scots aren’t exceptional. This is a form of inverted snobbery, primarily against the English, where certain individuals take an elevated view of themselves, saying that Scots are somehow superior and more polite, better than, and more distinguished than the English.
Whilst obviously everyone is entitled to hold their own up high, it is a problem in Scotland, as many Scots look at the English and think ‘oh that won’t happen to us, we’re so much better, loftier, different, exceptional’.
We’re not, and our country is dying.
It is usually I have to say the political progressive class who see themselves this way.
They whisper their disdain, explain the difference between Canada and America on the basis of who emigrated there.
Etcetera, etcetera.
They visit the French and explicitly say - ‘we’re not English’.
All true.
Scottish people exceptionalism from the ruling political elite is destroying life for the rest of us, who can see that there is an actual emergency happening in Scotland.
@BWoodzy99 When you just need to know someones name and address at best to lightly pencil in a vote with no ID or residency, you get banana republic outcomes like this. Whole election needs investigated by a real authority.