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Why reversing Brexit and rejoining the EU could take a decade and cost the UK an extra £5.6bn a year (www.msn.com)
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Current trajectory points to 40-100bn pounds in lost tax revenue per year.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

One of the criticisms of the original indie plan was it assumed quite a high price for oil, which has since crashed, which would have blown a massive hole in Scotland's finances because it was a large part of the theoretical income of the country. Probably falls into the "nice to have" category and not in the "structure your public spending based on it" category.