http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/why-an-independent-scotland-could-become-the-richest-country-on-earth-9096120.html
Just what I've been saying....(more or less...kinda! )
Not so much the richest country on earth OTT stuff though...though it would be nice.....but cutting back on the internal public empire building so beloved of Westminster Parliaments..small may not be beautiful...but it is more controllable. (could be describing me, in fact )
There were 98 unelected special advisers in 2012 (only 19 on a pay scale in which they might earn less than an MSP), at approaching seven and a half a million in wages altogether ...and what for...policies which haven't met any of the promises made before 2010.....plus 650 elected MPs and about 800 unelected Lords......costing a total for basic salaries/entitlements alone (assuming only half the Lords turn up every day to claim) £66,369,800...about the same amount as they.will save the luxury Bond Street retailers in business rates by putting off the revaluation of business properties until 2017.
Seems a lot of money to pay a coterie of bloated incompetent nincompoops to govern the UK......badly! (And a bit thick that small businesses have to struggle until 2017 while the likes of Chanel and Burberry get a tax break out of it.) Who was it who said "we're all in this together" ?