The Big Lie Returns

A New Year: a new, improved, promise that Scottish independence will magically make us all richer.

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A New Year but the same old story: Scottish nationalists will trot out any old nonsense if this will a) rally the SNP’s core vote and b) offer the illusion that Scottish independence will magically transform Scotland into a land of milk and honey.

We have been here many times before.

As Blair McDougall, who ran the Better Together campaign in 2024, observes:

People remember that in 2014 the Independence White Paper promised us we would be £600 better off. When that didn’t transform things they upped the figure to £2,700. In the closing days of the referendum, they dialled it up to £5,000. Nicola Sturgeon’s Growth Commission offered us £4,100.

Now the figure is £10,200. For each and every “household” in the land. As McDougall says, “Ta…