Scotlands choices the referendum and what happens afterwards amazonde mclean professor official fellow in politics and professor of politics iain gallagher gwilym gibbon fellow in the politics group jim lodge associate director guy fremdsprachige bucher. A scottish government would be faced even on the most optimistic scenarios with the same choice cutting spending or raising taxes if it wanted to create an oil fund what happens after the referendum depends on the vote but either way its the beginning of a process of change negotiations to form an independent state would be immensely challenging scotland would be negotiating with the uk but at the same time with the eu and nato with the uk sitting at both those tables hard . Scotlands choices the referendum and what happens afterwards amazonde iain mclean jim gallagher guy lodge fremdsprachige bucher. Scotlands choices the referendum and what happens afterwards friday 26th april 2013 if they reject independence the proposed changes from the calman commissions review on scottish devolution will most likely be put in place