RACHEL Reeves’s Budget is not a new beginning; it is the final, brutal confirmation that the British state is bankrupt – not just of money, but of ideas and morality. Her so-called “fiscal responsibility” is a grotesque capitulation, a pledge to continue bleeding the working class dry to service the debts of a failed economic model. For Scotland, it is the ultimate proof that the Union is a gilded cage, and Westminster a gong pit of short-sighted avarice from which we must escape.

The grim reality Reeves dares not address is that Scotland should already be one of the wealthiest nations on earth. While Norway coolly manages a $2 trillion sovereign wealth fund built on its natural resources, Scotland has been systematically robbed. That vast, common wealth – the legacy of our North Sea

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