The evidence shows that countries do better for themselves with independence. Firstly, we have the comparisons we can make between Scotland sized independent countries in NW Europe and the devolved parts of the UK. Secondly, we have the history of the newest examples of European countries gaining independence
It was already an unthinking narrative with the events of the past ten years. But asking that question, this time especially, given the contents of the document being released and the speech just made, was particularly cloth-eared. The paper was about various vivid failures of the UK. Shown through the kind of international comparison that leaves clammy, bespectacled, ‘These Islands’ types all too obviously agitated and even more snide than normal…
