donkey Posted January 9, 2012 Share Posted January 9, 2012 Oh dear oh dear oh dear, you seem to be having a bad day With such a blatantly evasive answer to some reasonable points, I'd say it's more like that it is you who is having a bad day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrSmith Posted January 9, 2012 Share Posted January 9, 2012 And the Scots would never again be ruled by Tories and have to be guinea pigs for such things as the poll tax. Maybe it would see a partition like exodus of Scottish Tories moving South and people desperate to escape the Conservatives moving North. Poll tax the fairest way to pay for the council services we use. Everyone uses them so everyone should pay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mj.scuba Posted January 9, 2012 Share Posted January 9, 2012 I don't know if it will be good for them, that's up to them. If I were Scottish, I'd probably want independance. From the English point of view it should be good as we won't have to subsidise them as much. Scotland will probably get a greater share of North Sea oil and gas revenues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anna Glypta Posted January 9, 2012 Share Posted January 9, 2012 I don't know if it will be good for them, that's up to them. If I were Scottish, I'd probably want independance. From the English point of view it should be good as we won't have to subsidise them as much. Scotland will probably get a greater share of North Sea oil and gas revenues. North Sea oil revenues aren't what they once were. Oil production is falling pretty rapidly these days and is down to 1/3 of peak output and only about 1/4 of UK oil remains and much of that is difficult and expensive to extract. At the moment oil revenues make up less than the UKs subsidy to Scotland as a whole, so regardless of who got the oil revenues I doubt Scotland would be better off financially. But oil is rapidly running out so to base an economy on something that won't be around in 20 years seems a little foolhardy to say the least. But to be honest I hope they do go. Once the oil is gone we will be tipping ever larger amounts of money into Scotland. I see this as a golden opportunity to get rid of the place and say goodbye to the West Lothian Question once and for all. :clap: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich Posted January 9, 2012 Share Posted January 9, 2012 Scottish independance? Won't happen, they rely too much on our Government for various things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
purdy Posted January 9, 2012 Share Posted January 9, 2012 Current UK Parliament Tory 307 Lib Dem 57 Lab 258 Others 28 Tory 47% of seats Without Scotland as part of the UK Tory 306 Lib Dem 45 Labour 218 Others 22. Tory 52% of seats I don't think the Scargillistas are going to like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donkey Posted January 9, 2012 Share Posted January 9, 2012 I don't think the Scargillistas are going to like that. Because New Labour are such a total bunch of communists, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
purdy Posted January 9, 2012 Share Posted January 9, 2012 Because New Labour are such a total communists, right? Do you think the Scargillistas will like it then?: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donkey Posted January 9, 2012 Share Posted January 9, 2012 Do you think the Scargillistas will like it then?: I don't suppose the Luddites will be too keen on it either Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poppins Posted January 9, 2012 Share Posted January 9, 2012 Why do the English always want to get rid of the wrong kind of people, what on earths wrong with the Scots? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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