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[suburbanreuben]

I most certainly would be happy for Scotland to keep it's oil revenues, past , present and future. Just so long as we can have our goalposts back...

 

[highlandsflyer]

Crikey, even I don't want to bring the other nations in the union to their knees paying us back for the oil.

Just let us take it from here, that will be fine.

You can have your posts back once you admit we invented football.

Along with everything else, including the English.

 

[suburbanreuben]

Crikey, even I don't want to bring the other nations in the union to their knees paying us back for the oil.

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We probably already have , and then some, bailing out your banks...

 

[highlandsflyer]

I actually made a joke back when that happened in the RBS, I said to my pal who works there that they seem to have changed the uniform, (it used to feature some tartan), "Was it after complaints from the new owners? After all most of them are not Scots.".

 

[mattbrown]

as the oil fields are slowing drying up, you can keep them, then you can borrow money off us at a very high interest rate to support your free lifestyle.

 

[suburbanreuben]

I actually made a joke back when that happened in the RBS, I said to my pal who works there that they seem to have changed the uniform, (it used to feature some tartan), "Was it after complaints from the new owners? After all most of them are not Scots.".

Don't blame them; spending more than a couple of days in central Edinburgh makes yer eyes go funny...

 

[rosstheboss]

I most certainly would be happy for Scotland to keep it's oil revenues, past , present and future. Just so long as we can have our goalposts back...

Goalposts?

Don't you mean wall?!?

 

[Iwasgoodonce]

Good for Salmond, very bad for salmon.

 

[highlandsflyer]

as the oil fields are slowing drying up, you can keep them, then you can borrow money off us at a very high interest rate to support your free lifestyle.

Interestingly, if you take the UK region by region, and consider Scotland as one region, we are not the most 'subsidised'...

Our GDP per capita is higher than most other regions too.

We need more immigration as stimulus though, so for McGod's sake move up here folks! We have plenty of room.

Oil running low increases the price increases the viability of more expensive extraction methods.

Not all bad for the next ten or twenty years at least, and we could sort out a nice little pot of reserve by then.

Unlikely to happen though, even if we were to overcome the legal aspect of ownership, we would have to broker deals with some of the most ruthless companies in the world to get a larger share of the dough.

Who knows what the future holds.

What I do know is that no one, especially Salmond, should be trumpeting the arrival of investments from Japanese firms.

We, as the UK, should be ring fencing the engineering and development side of all the renewables. Not letting the profit from the tax payers subsidisation go abroad.

 

[sylus]

personally I think we should let the scots go

but someone needs to be honest with them about the cost

the oil..you get money from the licence..not the oil it'self..the company who drills it keeps it, sells it and makes the money..and as mentioned..it's a natural resource that at best will only probably last one or two lifetimes

scotland is very underpolulated in comparisson to england and as such is heavily subsidised by westminster and the english overcrowded areas..same as wales

so A question I would ask my snp mp..if we pull out of the united kingdom and become independent..how much money did we used to get from the english..and where is that money coming from now..and when the oil runs out?

I suspect the figures may scare some