Letter to MP about our relationship with Scotland, in the event of a vote for Independence
Dear Mr Goodwill
In 10 days time, Scots may vote for independence from the rest of the UK, in a referendum in which we have no part.
If they should choose independence, I'd like to know your opinion about how it should happen. Here are some of my own strongly held views:
1) Scots should pay the full cost of independence: none of the costs associated with it should be left with the rest of the UK (rUK) to bear. We bore no part of an independence decision, we should bare no part of the cost of implementing independence.
2) We've been told by George Osborne that rUK will not enter into currency union with Scotland. That's fine as long as it happens that way. If a currency union should ever come on to the negotiating table, it must not be implemented under any circumstances without a referendum of rUK. We have a guarantee that no sovereignty will pass to the EU without a referendum, and it must be the same for sovereignty passing to an Independent Scotland.
3) It has been suggested/threatened by the Independence 'Yes' campaign that if rUK does not share the British Pound, they will not take a share of the National Debt. Given that threat, it must be written-in to the Independence Agreement that either their share of the debt is paid, or else it will automatically be recovered by some specified other means.
4) The country of Scotland and Scottish people are our friends, and an Independent Scotland will continue to be our friends as the Norwegians, Icelanders and Spanish (for example) are our friends. But like our relations these and other countries, we must act always in our own interests with an Independent Scotland. Independence must be a two-way street. A special relationship - probably; but a relationship where the British Government will always act in the rUK's national interest.
Do you have the same views about these matters as I do?
Yours sincerely
- Andi Ye
In 10 days time, Scots may vote for independence from the rest of the UK, in a referendum in which we have no part.
If they should choose independence, I'd like to know your opinion about how it should happen. Here are some of my own strongly held views:
1) Scots should pay the full cost of independence: none of the costs associated with it should be left with the rest of the UK (rUK) to bear. We bore no part of an independence decision, we should bare no part of the cost of implementing independence.
2) We've been told by George Osborne that rUK will not enter into currency union with Scotland. That's fine as long as it happens that way. If a currency union should ever come on to the negotiating table, it must not be implemented under any circumstances without a referendum of rUK. We have a guarantee that no sovereignty will pass to the EU without a referendum, and it must be the same for sovereignty passing to an Independent Scotland.
3) It has been suggested/threatened by the Independence 'Yes' campaign that if rUK does not share the British Pound, they will not take a share of the National Debt. Given that threat, it must be written-in to the Independence Agreement that either their share of the debt is paid, or else it will automatically be recovered by some specified other means.
4) The country of Scotland and Scottish people are our friends, and an Independent Scotland will continue to be our friends as the Norwegians, Icelanders and Spanish (for example) are our friends. But like our relations these and other countries, we must act always in our own interests with an Independent Scotland. Independence must be a two-way street. A special relationship - probably; but a relationship where the British Government will always act in the rUK's national interest.
Do you have the same views about these matters as I do?
Yours sincerely
- Andi Ye
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