Meeting of the Parliament 27 November 2013
Alternatively, we can go forward to a growing economy and a growing society. We can transform childcare for our children. We can benefit from the revenues and strength of Scotland’s natural resources. We can combine those resources with the population’s intelligence and ingenuity and create a new society.
Politics is about choices, and the choice next year will be between that new society and the future that is offered by better together, which for many Scots will be no future at all.
I move,
That the Parliament welcomes the publication of the Scottish Government’s comprehensive guide to an independent Scotland; agrees that it is better for everyone in Scotland if decisions about the country’s future are taken by the people who care most about Scotland, the people who live and work here; recognises the detailed analysis of the opportunities, benefits and practicalities of independence set out in the white paper, and its comprehensive answers to questions about independence, and looks forward to a positive national debate on independence for Scotland, with contributions from all perspectives and from all sectors of Scottish society, before the historic vote on 18 September 2014.
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