Given the ‘no’ campaign’s focus on business implications, currencies, and other such dreary affairs, I find the following from Edmund Burke rather appropriate:
But the age of chivalry is over. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever.
The modern disease of economics may have affected England to a greater extent than any other nation, but truly it is the great affliction of our age. If a question such as national independence can be seen to hinge on a balance sheet, then truly there is no longer any nation there worthy of the name — merely the fossilised remains of what once was.
Only if you can’t actually use a calculator.
You’ll note on page 14 he claims that only £590m of current UK budget is spent fully subsidising Scottish students in higher education:
http://worldofstuart.excellentcontent.com/WeeBlueBookDesktopEdition.pdf
Yet it doesn’t add up, there are over 2.3 million students in the UK of which nearly 10% are Scottish:
https://www.hesa.ac.uk/
Tuition fees paid by non-Scottish UK students are around £11,000/annum. It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that £11,000 x 200,000 is a lot more than £590m. Furthermore post independence higher education will only be free for Scottish students at Scottish universities, they will no longer be free to choose from any UK university, massively limiting higher education options.
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