For generations the people of Scotland have been fed a negative narrative on the health of Scotland’s economy. A depressing picture has been drawn by Westminster politicians of Scotland as a subsidised state dependent on the UK for charitable hand-outs with higher levels of debt and a dependency on the public sector. Scotland has been told that without the generosity of the UK to bail us out, Scotland would be a bankrupt nation, unable to meet the very basic needs and wants of its people. The reasons given for this belief seem to be a mix of Scotland being too “small” a country, not having the skills, resources and infrastructure, the wrong type of industry (too much manufacturing and exporting) and therefore too much debt. This narrative is fundamentally untrue. There is simply no evidence to support it whatsoever.
Posted on: Fri, 07 Nov 2014 20:04:29 +0000
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