Roger Anderson

The Union of 1707: "A historical iniquity with no right but might behind it", the real story of how the Union was imposed on Scotland.

Forget 'Unionist' fantasies & nonsense about glorious centuries of equal partnership, the Union was not & never has been equal. >

Dec 20, 2019 at 1:33pmWeb
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> Once the deed was done & the Union enacted Scotland suffered more than half a century of stagnation & poverty. It was the efforts of Scots that eventually allowed an escape & even then the cost was paid in emigration & loss of population. >
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> By the late 19th & into the 20th Century Scotland had become an industrial powerhouse, not that this benefitted most of it's population, & a massive net contributor to the British Imperial exchequer. >
Show threadRoger AndersonDec 20, 2019

> By 1964 questions were being asked by the Church of Scotland about exactly where tax revenue was going. Altho official annual returns were no longer published, figs had been given in a Paper published in 1952-53. This was before oil revenue started flowing into the UK exchequer.

Thread originally posted on Twitter.

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