> "Note that it's an open question if the Scots economy would remain worse per capita, not disagreeing there is/was pain ahead in transition" "Remain" is doing

> "Note that it's an open question if the Scots economy would remain worse per capita, not disagreeing there is/was pain ahead in transition" "Remain" is doing a lot of work here. Scotland runs a sizeable deficit with the rest of the union and with the decline of North Sea oil revenues that will only increase. Of course that might not "remain", but leaving the UK and then joining the EU is going to create a 5-10 year period of turbulence as well. Still, there's more important things than GDP.