r/Glasgow Tools

Title
Author	travellingcats
Comment	Almost everything I want has already been mentioned (legalising drugs, sorting out housing and transport, re-joining the EU..) but I have a few other policies and ideas I’d love to see in an independent Scotland: 1. We need to avoid being a tax-dodger’s paradise like Ireland. I am a hardcore Indy supporter but I genuinely think it’s not worth going independent if we end like that. 2. We should clamp down on airbnbs and dodgy money laundering tourist tat shops in places like Edinburgh, but that’s honestly more of an Edinburgh city council issue. A mandatory tourist tax is an absolute must for independent Scotland in my opinion. 3. Investment in green energy. We have so much unrealised potential in that area. 4. A Scottish republic. A hereditary monarchy has no place in a modern nation. 5. This is more of an ideology I guess. I want us to move away from the tartan tat shortbread image of Scotland. I work in tourism and I hate that we’ve boxed ourselves neatly into a stereotypical, Victorian parody of ourselves. When people think of the Nordic countries, they seem to think of their progressive policies. Sure, they still probably think of vikings and snowy landscapes. There just seems to be more of an awareness that those things are stereotypes. The Nordic nations present themselves as thriving, modern countries. Why can’t we do the same? Same with places like New Zealand. People seem to mostly think of Jacinda Arden or of New Zealand’s progressive policies. That exists alongside things like the all blacks or jokes about sheep. I just want us to be taken seriously on the world stage. I want our policies to be something to be proud of and I want them to be at the forefront of people’s minds when they think of Scotland.
Reddit Link	https://www.reddit.com/r/glasgow/comments/zmkxaq/whats_your_vision/j0bt3xb/
Created	Thu 15th Dec 2022 2:44pm
Status	normal ()

Almost everything I want has already been mentioned (legalising drugs, sorting out housing and transport, re-joining the EU..) but I have a few other policies and ideas I’d love to see in an independent Scotland:

1. We need to avoid being a tax-dodger’s paradise like Ireland. I am a hardcore Indy supporter but I genuinely think it’s not worth going independent if we end like that.

2. We should clamp down on airbnbs and dodgy money laundering tourist tat shops in places like Edinburgh, but that’s honestly more of an Edinburgh city council issue. A mandatory tourist tax is an absolute must for independent Scotland in my opinion.

3. Investment in green energy. We have so much unrealised potential in that area.

4. A Scottish republic. A hereditary monarchy has no place in a modern nation.

5. This is more of an ideology I guess. I want us to move away from the tartan tat shortbread image of Scotland. I work in tourism and I hate that we’ve boxed ourselves neatly into a stereotypical, Victorian parody of ourselves. When people think of the Nordic countries, they seem to think of their progressive policies. Sure, they still probably think of vikings and snowy landscapes. There just seems to be more of an awareness that those things are stereotypes. The Nordic nations present themselves as thriving, modern countries. Why can’t we do the same? Same with places like New Zealand. People seem to mostly think of Jacinda Arden or of New Zealand’s progressive policies. That exists alongside things like the all blacks or jokes about sheep. I just want us to be taken seriously on the world stage. I want our policies to be something to be proud of and I want them to be at the forefront of people’s minds when they think of Scotland.