THE Scottish Government has outlined an approach to migration that could not be further from the current UK administration
This is the latest edition of the free newsletter from Scotonomics. To receive it direct to your inbox every week, please click. No hostile environment here. The message from the Scottish Government is “welcome”. Not only do we need you, but we want you. The Building a New Scotland: Migration to Scotland After Independence paper is, as you would hope, principally about migration.
The benefits and moral duty to treat immigrants as human beings are strong enough not to warrant an economic argument. However, the Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Shirley-Anne Somerville , in her introduction, says, “This is also about our economic prospects”, which creates the opportunity for us to have a look at the paper.When I start to analyse these Building a New Scotland papers, I look for consistency of message on economic matters.
It is frustrating to see this simplistic “Economics 101” idea being used as the narrative of another Building a New Scotland paper. This just doesn’t cut it anymore.The Scottish Government's plan for independence is firstly to continue using sterling and then move to our own currency. Once this happens, Scotland will have a very different economic framework. It will stop using taxation as a way to fund public services. As a currency creator, Scotland will spend first.
Note the very different tone as we doff our caps to the Bankers. I will rewrite this using the language from the immigration paper. “This Scottish Government believes that financial regulation should be made according to the needs of Scotland’s economy, public services and communities, and should have dignity, fairness and respect at its heart.”It seems that independence allows us a higher moral and ethical plane when it comes to creating and structuring our new society.
In Scotland, immigration is the sole driver of population growth, and it is crucial for Scotland to be able to prosper as a small nation outside of a bigger economic union, and I would argue even as part of a bigger union like the EU. Scotland needs to significantly increase immigration if it wants to prosper. The economic message: you are welcome. On that most important point, we agree with the Scottish Government.
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