Tag: Ian McLean

There is still a lot that we don’t know about the choices that an independent Scotland might make

If the Scotland votes Yes on 18 September 2014, they do not know what they will get, apart from the departure of Scottish MPs from Westminster. To borrow Donald Rumsfeld’s useful phrase the remaining terms of independence are ‘known unknowns’.  The Scottish negotiators must enter discussions with several counterparties, the main ones being the European Union, NATO, […]