Do countries that secede from others also let go of the financial aid/welfare/subsidies coming from the ‘mother’ country that dominates them?
Sometimes, ethnic and cultural ties are stronger than economic ones.
Look at Canada for example.
They ‘claim” that they are independent, yet when you take the oath of citizenship: you have to swear an oath to AND actually say ‘QUEEN OF CANADA” and the picture is of Queen Elizabeth.
How do I know this? I’m originally from Canada.
Do countries that secede from others also let go of the financial aid/welfare/subsidies coming from the ‘mother’ country that dominates them?
It just becomes “foreign aid”.
If anything,Scotland has always disproportionately ‘dominated’ Britain, at least politically.
And economically, Scotland more than punches its own weight within the UK: north sea oil, tourism, whisky,Silicon Glen etc.
Also, Scotland receives more subsidies in recent years(the ‘Barnett Formula’) because it and Wales were UNDERFUNDED. And I say this as a Scot who wishes Scotland to stay within the UK, a strong Scotland in a strong Britain...
‘Channel 4 News last night came up with some fascinating figures on net gains and losses in terms of UK regions. Scotland comes out well, which we might have expected on past figures. When you factor in regional need, it changes things somewhat. Scotland still does well ( 3.7 per cent of net public expenditure), but not as well as London (-25.1 per cent).
Northern Ireland (3.8 per cent) receives almost a perfect match for its needs, as does the South East (-24.1 per cent). According to Neil acdonald, Scotland’s comfortable public sector buffering goes back to an anti Home Rule measure introduced in the late 19th Century.
According to these figures*, it is the East Midlands that is suffering most from this deal:
“Scotland is a slight subsidy junky, but not if you include oil. Actually including oil at current prices sees a healthy Scottish surplus. However, if money were to be allocated to those parts of the country that ‘needed’ it, ie the parts with lower average living standards, London is hugely over-provided for. Scotland does pretty well too. And the English regions are hard done by. East Midlands, the land of Robin Hood, is robbed blind.”’
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/politics/brassneck/november2007/uksubsidies.htm