France ? Good joke lol
@Psycho Sonny
Exactly the collapse of certain high street stores was just the final nail in the coffin for years of depravation after overseas investors took over
Scotland would be better off independent?
Nobody can say for sure if Scotland would be better off or worse independent. However they wouldn't just collapse into poverty. They would be fine overall.
The issue is money doesn't stay within the UK. For every £100 spent ideally you want as much of that staying here.
There is no point saying our GDP is this and that when all the money is flooding out of the country so they need to keep printing more on a daily basis to keep the country going.
The UK is failing. Wages have been stagnant for 20 years yet house prices have tripled in the same time period.
Now I'm not going into the whole buy to let debate it's really a wage issue. If people earned triple what they do now they wouldn't care.
Other countries like Canada have a higher minimum wage than us. How is that possible? People in these countries are earning 2-3 times more for similar job bs I've checked and if you are self employed you are earning 5-10 times more. The problem now is to buy even a half decent small accomodation in a city your talking £600k starting prices for like a 2 bedroom flat. People go on about London house prices they think wow look how expensive they are whereas in reality London house prices wouldn't even get you a quarter of the equivalent house in Vancouver.
However in Vancouver wages are much better, quality of life is much better, the people are better.
Why are they thriving? Because a lot of the money spent their stays there. They grow a lot of their own produce. They have massive amounts of forests with natural wood resources. Miles of sweetcorn, blueberries, etc.
They are actually producing products people need and want on a large scale.
Scotland has whisky which is world famous. We need more home grown products like this that our own people want and so do other countries.
Germany has done so well essentially just off the back of its car industry.
Japan off electronics and cars.
Korea off electronics and cars.
So you have to look at what do people need and how can we provide it.
Homes
Cars
Electronics
Food and drink
We cannot supply homes in other countries. But maybe we could supply essential raw materials if we got an industry going.
Cars. Well we would need the likes of jaguar, Aston Martin, rolls Royce to band together and possibly use all their expertise to compete with Tesla and Toyota and BMW, etc make a car for the masses that's actually decent.
Electronics, we have small companies here and there. In fact it's a Scottish company that makes the DAC's that go into most mobile phones they are a world leader in sound quality.
We need more innovative solutions and ideas within the electronic components market. We won't be able to make CPUs or gpu. But if we focus on a few essential parts here and there the expertise will grow where they can diversify into more than just DAC's.
Wolfson microelectronics was a Scottish company headquartered in Edinburgh. Was bought out by cirrus logics in America in 2014.
The government need to stop foreign companies buying up our best and moving them abroad and stop our best leaving the UK for the likes of Singapore like Dyson.
Do whatever it takes even massive tax breaks to keep them here because if you keep them here you keep jobs here and money here and then you reclaim that missing tax back in the long run and then more.
By everything moving abroad we will be just taxing those who are stuck here more even though they don't have much to begin with.
Also do a trump out huge tariffs on foreign products if we have decent alternatives already here.
Why are we buying Swedish furniture made in china when it's essentially cheap dangerous crap? Put tariffs on it and then people will buy British made real wood products that are solid and won't tip over and kill 2-3 year olds.
