Kevint: Of course you have the right to voice your opinion, no one said any different.
My understanding was that it was money from England that originally financed the north sea oil fields, something that created a vast number of jobs for the Scottish. regarding the banks, I was referring to the bailout of HBOS, if you had been independent, Scotland would have had to borrow from the imf at some huge cost, as it is this cost is being paid for by your and my tax.
The oil fields, I would just point out are outside of Scottish water, and are owned by BP a company based in London.
It has been forecast that the 2007 GNP for Scotland including the revenue from the oil, will be around £70 billion, with the rest of the united kingdom producing some £2000 billion, £70 billion would put Scotland at about 50 in the list of countries just below Egypt, It was also shown that with this amount of money Scotland would not be able to sustain a health service or armed forces without huge impact on the unemployed, a major problem in Scotland especially at this time.
Hi Kevnt,
Will get back to with the true fiscal report 2008 from the Allander Institute which is recognised and used by he UK goverment, but prior to that can I ask you a pertinent question? why would England want to keep control of a nation that is costing it money! when that nation want's it's fiscal freedom within Europe
let us go
and England will be better off
peronally Kevint I would rather be a poor Scot than a rich Brit
Good debate Kevint let's keep it going
hope to hear from you soon
Stew.