git-intae-thum Posted September 24, 2014 Share Posted September 24, 2014 Should oil revenue from the North Sea be devolved to Holyrood as part of the batch of new powers? It would surely settle the argument over the true value of oil to the respective Scottish/UK economies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Todders Posted September 24, 2014 Share Posted September 24, 2014 Should oil revenue from the North Sea be devolved to Holyrood as part of the batch of new powers? It would surely settle the argument over the true value of oil to the respective Scottish/UK economies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthernLights Posted September 24, 2014 Share Posted September 24, 2014 Should oil revenue from the North Sea be devolved to Holyrood as part of the batch of new powers? It would surely settle the argument over the true value of oil to the respective Scottish/UK economies. Just feel the utter contempt... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8XIeAZEWYM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
itzdrk Posted September 24, 2014 Share Posted September 24, 2014 Tbh they should just kick us out of the UK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wallace Mercer Posted September 24, 2014 Share Posted September 24, 2014 Can feel the anger & seethe coming through in the Yes peoples posts their still on the verge of tears almost a week after they have lost. Pleasing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Confidemus Posted September 24, 2014 Share Posted September 24, 2014 Can feel the anger & seethe coming through in the Yes peoples posts their still on the verge of tears almost a week after they have lost. Pleasing! ^^^ beeling Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wallace Mercer Posted September 24, 2014 Share Posted September 24, 2014 ^^^ beeling Sorry don't understand you mate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
git-intae-thum Posted September 24, 2014 Author Share Posted September 24, 2014 If Westminster is serious about preserving the union then with full devo max surely we should control all revenue raised in scotland. Westminster could then send us a bill (independently costed) for services under reserved issues ie foriegn affairs and defence. It is only this kind of radical approach that could preserve the union long term Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bowmore Posted September 24, 2014 Share Posted September 24, 2014 Tbh they should just kick us out of the UK And keep the oil. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bowmore Posted September 24, 2014 Share Posted September 24, 2014 And keep the oil. After all, its not what ScotNats are bothered about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
renton Posted September 24, 2014 Share Posted September 24, 2014 If Westminster is serious about preserving the union then with full devo max surely we should control all revenue raised in scotland. Westminster could then send us a bill (independently costed) for services under reserved issues ie foriegn affairs and defence. It is only this kind of radical approach that could preserve the union long term Oil revenue being the one thing they wouldn't dare devolve. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
git-intae-thum Posted September 24, 2014 Author Share Posted September 24, 2014 After all, its not what ScotNats are bothered about. If you can't give any reasonable response then don't bother. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarePeople Posted September 24, 2014 Share Posted September 24, 2014 Let them keep the oil if they want, we'll swap it for Trident. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
git-intae-thum Posted September 24, 2014 Author Share Posted September 24, 2014 Oil revenue being the one thing they wouldn't dare devolve. You have to wonder why though. We have just went through a whole campaign with the no camp saying its a volatile declining resource. Surely they weren't lying to people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boabinoban Posted September 24, 2014 Share Posted September 24, 2014 Tbh they should just kick us out of the UK They'll only ever do that after they've annexed Orkney and Shetland. The Borders needs a fucking rocket up its subsidy junkie arse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
renton Posted September 24, 2014 Share Posted September 24, 2014 You have to wonder why though. We have just went through a whole campaign with the no camp saying its a volatile declining resource. Surely they weren't lying to people. I think it's not so much that the overall oil contribution to the economy is so much that losing it at westminster would be catastrophic, more that having the oil flow directly into Holyrood would represent a clear concentration of wealth in scotlands' coffers that would be seen as unacceptable to the Westminster parliament. Ironically of course, labour would resist this more than the Tories would. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bowmore Posted September 24, 2014 Share Posted September 24, 2014 If you can't give any reasonable response then don't bother. Sorry but when I have pointed to the fact that the independence campaign has for a large part been based upon oil and I've been told by some of the more vocal yessers on here that it is not. When I point out that the union didn't start 30 years ago, when oil was discovered and the referendum push began, again I'm told that its just a coincidence. When I've said in relation to this that it all seems a bit Man City and that a percentage of Yes voters are fairweather friends, well nothing really comes back from that. Scotland have done very well out of the union and for the parts of the UK that are suffering from WM too it seems a bit shit and chav-like that Salmond has pulled some people into this. If oil was not in the north sea would there be any push to go it alone? Maybe from a few haters but for most, I doubt it..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bowmore Posted September 24, 2014 Share Posted September 24, 2014 They'll only ever do that after they've annexed Orkney and Shetland. I wonder if this happened if there would still be a push for independence? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boabinoban Posted September 24, 2014 Share Posted September 24, 2014 I think it's a fair argument to be honest. Why should it take some fucking lord and the parties of Westminster to decide what's good for Scotland, wit no Scottish representative at any point involved? Surely these things should be open to negotiation, because otherwise it just looks like we're feeding from the scraps thrown from the table. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boabinoban Posted September 24, 2014 Share Posted September 24, 2014 I wonder if this happened if there would still be a push for independence? It depends on whether ou believe those islands to belong to Scotland or the UK, which boils down to whether you think Scotland is a country or not. What do you think? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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