I haven't rubbished anything where evidence has been provided, but I have and will continue to challenge some assertions made. You mentioned the NSO figures but didn't tell us what they were or how they were calculated and I said that they weren't necessarily reliable and gave jmy own income tax and company corporation tax as an example of what might be termed missapplied tax revenues to support my comment.

The Government Expenditure & Revenues Report Scotland was first published in 1992 and was held up by Tories and Labour for years as being the definitive report. Then some SNP economists asked the right questions and discovered things that were charged to Scotland that had no connection at all to us, such as the English High Court system, while parts of our revenues were allocated elsewhere.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/6267881.stm

These anomalies were corrected and now the same report shows Scotland in surplus for the last three years while the UK ran a deficit throughout the period. The link to the Scottish (SNP) Government summary is here http://www.scotland.gov.uk/News/Rele...09/06/18155737

and from there you can click the link top right to go the raw data if you would like to check it. And just to be clear, the GERS report comes from Westminster, not Edinburgh/the SNP.

But do you know what - I don't know that either of us will trust this as accurate, so I'm going to give it a rest and let others take a turn at the debate.