[{"id": 140800, "created": "2020-06-05T03:53:04.177213", "project_id": 467, "task_id": 90769, "user_id": 677, "user_ip": null, "finish_time": "2020-06-05T03:56:11.619675", "timeout": null, "calibration": null, "external_uid": null, "media_url": null, "info": {"comments": "", "graphelem": "", "leafletBody": "Could we defend ourselves? Who is threatening Scotland? There's no way the EU wouldn't want Scotland. By voting yes, we have control over EU membership.    "}}, {"id": 141300, "created": "2020-06-18T18:27:49.231193", "project_id": 467, "task_id": 90769, "user_id": 2014, "user_ip": null, "finish_time": "2020-06-18T19:02:33.453175", "timeout": null, "calibration": null, "external_uid": null, "media_url": null, "info": {"comments": "", "graphelem": "", "leafletBody": "Scotland. Others would like to see it diversified into renewable energy work. We can use the money saved to create jobs that are useful and not a threat to the world. If there is a No vote the Westminster parties have said that they will go ahead with a new trident programme which will keep nuclear weapons on the Clyde for another fifty years and cost \u00a3100 billion to build and maintain. With Yes we can save that money.\r\n\r\nCould we defend ourselves?\r\nWho is threatening Scotland? State on state attacks are very rare in the modern world (if you don't include what Britain and the United States have done in Iraq and Afghanistan). Invasions are very costly and rarely successful as we have seen and so much business today is multi-national. A threat like terrorism has not been a major issue in Scotland and is a policing matter. Cyber warfare requires technical expert not armed forces. We do need navel protection for our fishing grounds and our oil fields and we would want to be able to contribute some troops to United Nations peacekeeping if required. But we would not want to be dragged into the disastrous wars that British governments have led us into.\r\nAt present Scotland contributes \u00a33.3billion pounds every year to the UK Defence budget. With independence we could provide for our defence needs for a billion pounds a year less. This would be a billion pounds we could have every year to spend on things like housing and better help for carers.\r\n\r\nThere's no way the EU wouldn't want Scotland, is there?\r\nScotland has been in the Eu for forty years and there is no Treaty provision that would require us to leave with independence. We would be a net contributor to their budget and we have a substantial proportion of the EU's maritime territory in which the other countries are allowed to fish. The Eu has been very anxious to expand its area of control so it's not likely to let Scotland escape. The comments by some EU officials are designed to help the Spanish Government who have a strong independence movement in Catalonia but if the vote Yes, they would have to come to terms with reality or find the Spanish fishermen excluded from Scottish waters. If there is a No vote, we don't know how people in the UK will vote in the referendum that has been promised on Eu membership -  the outcome wouldn't be in our control.\r\n\r\nWould relatives who've lived in England be citizens? \r\nOn day one of independence all British citizens who are resident in Scotland and all British citizens who were born in Scotland but resident elsewhere will have Scottish citizenship. There will also be other routes to become a citizen. \r\n\r\nWhat about borders and all that?\r\nThe UK has always had a common travel area with the Irish Republic and there are no border posts. Scotland will be the same,\r\n\r\nWhat happens to the BBC?\r\nBBC Scotland will become the core of the Scottish Broadcasting Service. There would be a contractual arrangement with the BBC for access to programmes just as there are existing arrangements for live transmission with the Netherlands, Switzerland and Ireland. STV has the license to broadcast until 2025. Scotland contributes \u00a3320 million annually in licence fee.\r\n\r\nwww.womenforindependence.org   "}}]