23 hours ago, Perhaps2more said:

What's there to read? I quoted from the government's website. The account (everything included) is Minus 14 billion pounds.

How can Scotland support itself or anyone with minus 14 billion pounds?

What the SNP spends to keep people happy is one of the main reasons that stops Scotland from gaining independent.

The North sea oil is one of UK investments which Scotland gets part of its income.

https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/12332074.figures-explode-subsidy-myth-scotland-gave-27bn-more-than-was-received/

 

3 hours ago, FritsSikkink said:

https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/12332074.figures-explode-subsidy-myth-scotland-gave-27bn-more-than-was-received/

 

Wouldn't that be clutching at straws? Can you really think like that?  

 

(Quote) : Mr William Waldegrave, Chief Secretary to the Treasury, has been forced to concede figures in Commons questioning in recent months, which show that

" if Scotland's share of North Sea revenues had been allocated since 1979," then the net flow in favour of the Treasury from north of the Border ran to #27bn - a figure which the SNP used to refute previous claims that Scotland was subsidised. (Unquote)

 

The first meeting of the Scottish Parliament took place on 12 May 1999.

Twenty years before that (from 1979), Scotland was managed by Westminster.

The investment in the north sea oil was a UK investment.

Can you work out how much was paid by Scotland into the North Sea investment?

The period before the Scottish Parliament, money from England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland was collected and spent as one country which is the United Kingdom.

 

How far would you like to go back? Only as far as it is beneficial to you obviously. 

How about as far as history can take you? 

Or perhaps we can do the recent history;

Would you like to pay back stolen treasures from the colonial period? After all they were stolen, not paid for.

How would Scotland compensate the slaves and slave trade?

It is not possible to think like that, is it?

 

Taken from what is now (Not If, we were going back in time); 

At the present time Scotland is running at a lost of 14 billion pounds.

 

 

 

On 7/11/2019 at 10:50 AM, Brunolem said:

The answer in one word: Switzerland

 

A country can very well prosper outside the EU. 

 

As a matter of fact, it is the poor countries, from Romania to Turkey, that are waiting in line to join the EU, while the rich ones prefer to stay on the sides, watching the edification of this moder tower of Babel, that will collapse like its predecessor... 

In fact, all the EFTA countries are the wealthiest countries in Europe, many of the EU ones languish at the bottom with low GDP and low growth, exporting people more than goods in what some might describe as EU corporate human trafficking and exploitation.