Scotland's Future

As an amendment to motion S4M-09844 in the name of Annabel Goldie (Scotland’s Future), leave out from second “notes" to end and insert "agrees that only independence will guarantee Scotland governments that reflect the views of its people on all matters; notes that for 35 of the 69 years since 1945, Scotland has been governed by UK administrations with no electoral mandate in Scotland; regrets that decisions taken by the UK Government will remove £6 billion in welfare payments from Scotland, especially from its most vulnerable families, resulting in up to 100,000 more children living in poverty; agrees that an independent Scotland would, per person, be one of the wealthiest nations in the developed world and that Scotland can more than afford to be an independent country, and notes that Scotland spends less of both its GDP and public revenues on social protection than the UK as a whole and that, with independence, the people of Scotland would have the power to abolish the so-called bedroom tax, halt the introduction of universal credit and the personal independence payment, build a welfare system based on principles of dignity, respect and fairness and would have the opportunity to grow Scotland’s economy to its full potential, harness its natural resources and make Scotland a more equal and socially just society".