| What about all the jobs that depend on trade with England? |
| Wednesday, 18 March 2009 14:59 |
| England is always going to be a hugely important export market for Scotland, and a vital trading partner. The SNP is keen to develop and expand those links. But you don’t need to share a government with a country to trade with it. Independent Ireland has a large share of its trade with the UK, but it does so more effectively than Scotland, because it gets to take the key decisions about its own economy. Nobody in today’s Europe regards political borders as a barrier to international trade,and indeed Scotland must increasingly see its home market as Europe, not just the UK. Again, Ireland, a country which until very recently depended very heavily on the UK for its exports shows how a small country can widen its economic horizons to the European market. |
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