Is Scottish independence a 'good or bad' thing?

Yes, England is by far the biggest constituent state of our union. This is why we shouldn't be governed by a government catering mainly for England. We need FULL powers to Holyrood and the only way to do that is to vote yes in the referendum.

Full powers, like setting interest rates and so on?

Oh yeah, you're leaving that to the BoE anyway.

The Barnett formula is awful for Scotland to be fair-nearly £2k extra per head in spending than those evil folk doon sooth.


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But majority of the Scottish Parliament are Scottish. So is he saying that the Scottish Parliament should be infested by English MSPs?

The fact remains that Scotland receives devolved powers and has the luxury of voting on matters in England which do not concern them and has received the second most per head in public spending yet people like you still complain about it.

It's in the best interest for both Scotland and rUK for a currency union dictated as it currently is.



The Barnett formula accounts for oil revenue which Scotland brings in.

£27 billion oil revenue from North Sea Oil (Scottish) in 2011-12

And before you say the extra £2k spending is fair, when the oil is taken into account, think about this: the amount of oil income / scottish population, which is correct as the oil should be ours and only ours.

Expenditure per head in Scotland should be much higher and would be much higher if all oil was utilised by the Scottish government.

They also have influence over how monetary and defence policy is made. If (as the SNP claims.. and I do not buy it.. but humouring them) we enter currency union and Scotland is consequently required to conform all their taxation and spending policies to EWNI's pleasure, they will be in pretty much the same position they were pre-independence except now they have absolutely no influence over the fiats coming from Westminster, and the EWNI government will suffer no electoral penalty for really turning the screws north of the border.

Given that the SNP is demanding they remain part of the EU, remain part of NATO, retain the British monarch, retain the pound sterling, continue to take orders from Westminster regarding fiscal policy, I wonder how they imagine this to be independence?

Then why, even with geographical shares of oil, does the Scottish Government have itself losing billions of pounds a year? Scotland receives more in public spending than it contributes.

I just find Scots whining about not having enough devolution laughable when England has none whatsoever and all 3 other constituents do. I am not talking of an English assembly but greater distribution of power and wealth across England.

£27 billion oil revenue from North Sea Oil (Scottish) in 2011-12

Infested? You have a raging case of xenophobia. So typical for a nationalist. it's like having a conversation with someone who has stepped out of a time machine from the 1930s.



Yes, because anecdotal evidence is the best kind of evidence

It's in the best interest for both Scotland and rUK for a currency union dictated as it currently is.



The Barnett formula accounts for oil revenue which Scotland brings in.

£27 billion oil revenue from North Sea Oil (Scottish) in 2011-12

And before you say the extra £2k spending is fair, when the oil is taken into account, think about this: the amount of oil income / scottish population, which is correct as the oil should be ours and only ours.

Expenditure per head in Scotland should be much higher and would be much higher if all oil was utilised by the Scottish government.

More like £6 billion, mate.

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/Img/352173/0104217.gif

Why do cybernats have delusions and hallucinations when it comes to North Sea Oil revenue?

Why should the oil be the people of Glasgow's but not, say, the people of East Anglia's?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-24866266

"There are wide-ranging figures on the North Sea gas and oil industry. UK oil revenue has ranged from £1.5bn in 1991-92 to £27bn in 2011-12."

As I said the UK revenue from SCOTTISH OIL was £27bn in 2011-12. Have a good day, mate.

Because the oil is in Scotland.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-24866266

"There are wide-ranging figures on the North Sea gas and oil industry. UK oil revenue has ranged from £1.5bn in 1991-92 to £27bn in 2011-12."

As I said the UK revenue from SCOTTISH OIL was £27bn in 2011-12. Have a good day, mate.

It's in the best interest for both Scotland and rUK for a currency union dictated as it currently is.

I can see how it would be in Scotlands interest, but could you please explain how it would be in the interests of the rUK to underwrite a massive petro-economy with an inflated banking sector when it has no control over that countries Government spending?

You're confusing revenue of the oil industry with government revenue. This isn't unusual for cybernats, to be utterly confused when it comes to basic and elementary economic precepts that even a schoolchild can understand.

You do realise that the oil "revenue" of oil companies doesn't go straight into government coffers, that only a proportion makes it into HMG revenue? And if you did realise that, then you now accept that you were hopelessly confused to mention the Barnett formula (a formula for calculating central government spending) in the same context as private oil industry revenue?