Reply #8: Unpicking the macinery of government might be tricky

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Quite a lot of Scots are actually employed in the Public Sector carrying out some of the administrative tasks of government on the population of England. For example, income tax payers in certain parts of London and the South East of England have historically had their affairs dealt with by offices in Glasgow and Edinburgh. I do not think that situation is going to be survive the dissolution of the Union , particularly if it is acrimonious. There would be a big demand to move the machinery of English government together with the associated jobs south of the border. Indeed, within the UK IT industry there are rumours that at least one UK government department is planning to shut its Scottish data centre and move all the servers to England. I expect to see more decisions of this nature if Scottish independence becomes a runner.