http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-26326117
The North Atlantic oil fields have been in decline for the last 10 years...
The REAL issue here, perhaps? The oil?
Computer modeling is NOT science. GIGO...............
What is the cost of recovering that oil?
I bet over $65/barrel.
The cheapest to get stuff is gone.
An Independent Scotland might not make up the subsidies they get from England with oil.
Venezuela has much more oil per capita and cheaper to exploit.
But when you have Leftist in charge like Alex Salmond and his SNP it always goes to feces.
Sounds like desperation time for the Scottish Marxists.
That is the base of Salmond’s plan
“Hey Scots - when we are independent, our small nation can have EVEN MORE welfare and Government jobs! Sure, we can’t use the Euro and won’t be able to issue debt in Pounds, but he - we’ll have OIL, or something.”
Give all of your land and resources to the British Empire, and bow. Otherwise, you’re a Marxist. [Never mind that the U.K. is already ruled by the financial Marxists/Plutocrats behind the politicians.]
I wonder how much of this announcement is tailored for one side of the referendum.
I suspect Scotland’s reason for independence is related to the rest of the union’s rapid downward spiral into hard core Marxism, social disintegration caused by Progressives and subjugation to the Muslim invaders.