Originally Posted by
.Ross.
Well ... Another 30 year left in the North sea .. We dont own the North sea neither does Scotland ... Only revenue is TAX .. Thatcher made sure of that.
Scotland with only 6 million people?
The only other Gold they have is Coal (Shit load in the south west) But they only sell that coal to England. What else? Ship building. Again the only ships to be built are for the Royal Navy.
The amount of Scottish people in the English Army?
Tourisim ... Thats a big one tho.
What about all the Nuclear Powerstations we built? They gonna throw a few Billion back ?
Bad Idea to go alone IMO. Are they thinking about joining the EU? Basically ... All the money that is Put into the UK ecconomy from Scotland doesnt cover the Money we send North of the Border ...
Seem funny to me that tax money has built the country up, Roads, Rail, Nuclear Power stations etc etc .. Now its a case of .. Thank you now piss off??
Oh dear. How about putting anything up to justify any single aspect of what you have written?
In 30 years Norway have built a fund that should last them forever.
With our population of 5 million, we would be ranked mid-table among the 223 independent countries, so that would make us an average-sized country, not a small one. Norway and others seem to cope just fine and, as I keep telling the wife, size isn't everything!"
Coal is just one of our natural resources and, despite Thatcher's best efforts, it is still an active industry in many parts of the country, not just in the south-west.
Ship-building is in decline - no getting away from it, but as an independent country free to decide whether we want to be in europe or not, we could take our own decisions on where to have public sector vessels like the auxilliary marine, ferries etc built taking proper account of the cost of building elsewhere and having to pay unemployment benefit to our own ship-builders while foregoing their income taxes.
"English" Army be damned - it is still the British Army. The funny thing about it is that the Jocks are very over-represented in the infantry in all major theatres of operations, but the actual military spend is about £4bn per annum light north of the border compared to what it should be.
Tourism will continue to be important to an independent Scotland, but who thinks anyone will stop coming because our politicians are sitting in Edinburgh instead of London?
We didn't ask for the nuclear power stations and have now blocked any new ones - good move in a country with abundant scope for wind/hydro/wave power - but will be stuck with the decommissioning costs unless you want the UK government to come and take their rubbish south of the border.
While they are doing it, they may like to collect the rusting nuclear subs tied up at Rosyth - just a few miles from here and Edinburgh. If they are so safe, why aren't they tied up in Portsmouth, Southampton or on the Thames?
We don't have to join the EU because we are already in and there is no mechanism for us to be ejected on independence. Personally I'd be happy to be out like so many other successful countries happily trading with EU states but not governed by them. Or maybe the remainder of the UK will also be ejected at that time and we all have to re-apply? With most of Europe's oil, wave-power technology, fisheries and who knows what else, do you think the EU would prefer to have Scotland or England as a member?
Show me ANY reliable figures on how much England has paid to build us up, or any plans they have to improve our infrastructure? You mentioned rail. That will be the high speed rail link that is planned to stop at Manchester?
Sorry matey, can't agree with anything you have trotted out here.