How would independence be different from the current position? The Referendum Answer: At the moment Scotland sends 59 Members of Parliament to Westminster. The rest of the UK sends 591. Even if all Scottish MPs vote one way on an issue, they can be voted down by more than 10 to one. If Scotland was independent, our elected representatives could never be outvoted. Since 2010, a large majority of Scottish MPs have voted against increasing VAT, austerity cuts, the privatisation of the Royal Mail, cutting child benefit, capping benefits and welfare and the introduction of the ‘bedroom tax’. On each of these issues, Scotland’s representatives at Westminster have been outvoted by a government led by a party (the Conservatives) which won only one of Scotland’s 59 constituencies.
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