Scotland’s Choices: The Referendum and What Happens Afterwards - Tapa blanda

One of the essential books on the referendum debate. --Simon Jenkins, The Guardian

Committed as I am to the independence cause I searched in this book for any sign of bias, one way or the other. I congratulate the three authors, who are all Oxford-based academics, on their fairness and scrupulous objectivity. Equally commendable is their lucidity; the book is written in plain, available prose. --Harry Reid, Scottish Review of Books

Scotland's Choices is a careful, lucid, objective description of the state Scotland is in. --John Lloyd, Financial Times

Scotland faces its biggest choice since the 1707 union - should Scotland be an independent country? The Yes and No campaigns are well under way but with the vote looming closer the information available to the public is still limited. The Scottish people will have to make their own judgments, and so they need to have the issues explained as clearly as possible without spin or bias. What will happen after the referendum? How will Westminster and the rest of the UK respond? What happens if the vote is 'No'? Is it even clear what independence will mean? What about the oil? What will the currency be? What will happen to the Old Age Pension pot if the UK splits? Scotland's Choices, now fully revised for the critical last few months before the referendum, tells you everything you need to know before you place your vote. Written by one former civil servant, one academic and one think-tanker - one a resident Scot, one a Scot living in England and one an Englishman - the authors clearly explain the issues you may not have considered and detail how each of the options would be put into place after the referendum.