Guido Fawkes opina que una eventual independencia de Escocia beneficiaría al resto de ingleses y a los propios escoceses (el gobierno de la región autónoma acaba de publicar un libro blanco que detalla los pasos de un proceso de secesión). Copio su comentario (énfasis mío):
Guido thinks Scottish Toryism is a busted flush. Every nation in Western Europe has a strong, centre-right, patriotic party capable of forming a government – except Scotland – which has a weak centre-right party seen as too English. Justifiably so. Cameron says he will not allow Scotland to go independent on his watch, reminding us that his party is the Conservative and Unionist Party. Well that isn’t very localist and it isn’t “trusting the people” to deny them a referendum. The rhetoric doesn’t match the policies again.
Maximum devolution (where the Union government in Westminster maintains foreign policy and national defence) is compatible with the localist ideas and rhetoric advanced by Tories and LibDems. Brussels is where the fundamental legislative action takes place anyway. London effectively pays for the national defence of the United Kingdom already, that wouldn’t change if Scotland became fiscally independent, though the £19 billion Boris identifies as being exported from London would inevitably be reduced. If Scotland had to stand on its own fiscal feet it would soon discover that having a Sovietised economy is not sustainable. An independent Scotland would see the SNP turn from being a left-wing nationalist party into a normal centre-right, patriotic party as found in every Western European democracy.
Cabe preguntarse si comunidades como Andalucía o Extremadura, recipientes netos de la redistribución territorial, no se "espabilarían" un poco más (traducido: echarían a los socialistas del poder) si tuvieran que apañárselas solos. Son las teorías de Peter Bauer sobre el desarrollo aplicadas a las regiones.
