The SNP must rethink its economic model for an independent Scotland

Primary Author or Creator
Laurie Macfarlane
Additional Author(s) / Creators
Open Democracy
Type of Resource
Assessment report
Date Published
Fast Facts

 With the right plan on currency, economic model and transition, there is no reason why Scotland could not become a successful independent nation. But that plan needs to come from the 2020s, not the 1990s. And it needs to come from a broad cross section of civil society, not just business groups.

Far from being an asset to the independence cause, the Growth Commission is its biggest liability. It’s time, as we say, ‘tae think again’.