I just noticed this as a headline in an email from Financial Director magazine:
I wonder if they realise that for many people that would be all the evidence that they need that it might make sense for them? After all, this is the profession that took us to the brink of destruction on the basis of assumptions as to the way that the economy worked that nearly ruined us, despite which they have shown no sign of any greater wisdom since then.
In that case if I was undecided I might decide to vote the exact opposite way that any professional adviser suggested and think I'd probably got it right.
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Of course, if Scottish independence really did make economic sense they would have done it decades ago.
Are you sure?
Decades ago Scotland had an economy that looked like a economy in theory is supposed to look like: a good mix of manufacturing, services, finance, a strong govt. sector. Then came the age of neo-liberalism and the idea that the Economy was more important than Society or even Families (if you’re a Thatcherite). In attempting to make London a pre-eminent financial centre a lot of criminality was overlooked and was grandfathered into the expectations of our common economic life. Scottish independence is an attempt to change the whole narrative. It is happening now because people have had enough of neo-liberalism and its Westminster enablers. So a trite one-liner doesn’t even work as a cynical quip because it isn’t even close to the truth of what is happening but then Mr Sleeman I doubt if you care one iota about what happens to the left behind. I do and I’m voting Yes. If it doesn’t happen in two days time it will eventually unless Westminster really changes. I’m not holding my breath for that because I want to live.
Whatever happens I hope the threat to neoliberalism is real