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3/21/2013 6:06:33 PM
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I haven't been keeping up, nor am I familiar with European politics. What would this mean for Scotland if they were to be independent?
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Scotland would be a tiny country outside the E.U with half the country lacking motorways. They would possibly get the Oil stuff though, so Aberdeen might stay rich for another decade or so. They'd probably have to stop their free University education and stuff too.
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Outside? No if we were independent we would join the E.U and adopt the Euro as our currency
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Edited by SkilPhil: 3/21/2013 6:47:49 PMWould we? I seem to remember Salmond saying they wouldn't adopt the euro. We have the Scottish pound already, which they don't accept in England.... 'THATS LEGAL TENDER!' Also I think most of the oil was sold off pretty early on. That's the thing, he hasn't really explained how we will benefit from it with actual facts. People, like myself, have to piece it together with a limited knowledge of Scotlands income and spending. Hopefully more information will be presented nearer the time so we can base a decision on facts rather than braveheart quotes.
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Edited by RIP delta: 3/21/2013 6:48:13 PMI got given a Scottish fiver at the pub yesterday Wasn't amused
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Edited by SkilPhil: 3/21/2013 6:58:14 PMHa ha, good luck spending that one! I remember I was at T in the Park, a Scottish festival in Scotland, and the English woman selling cigarettes wouldn't accept my money, I was pretty hammered and gave her so much shit for it haha
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To be honest I've never had a problem shifting them, aside from at somewhere like Tesco when the tiller is still in school.
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Takes a while to join the E.U, and you are by no means guaranteed acceptance, squire
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They will accept us though. We have [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Sea_oil]Oil[/url]
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It is British. There is no absolute certainty you'd get whole ownership
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Well it would be in Scottish waters. Although there would obviously be some deal with the UK for them to keep some of it.
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[quote]Well obviously, It is hard to argue against oil revenues following the physical locations of the fields. That is the way international agreements have generally been made - for instance the recent treaty between Norway and Russia covering the Barents Sea. But some account must surely be made of the historical contributions of London-based groups such as BP for their role in extracting the oil at huge initial expense. Clearly it is fair also to argue that Scotland has benefited from higher levels of public spending from Whitehall plus the financial bail out of Royal Bank of Scotland. The oil question will need to be thrown into a wider mix around issues such as defence.[/quote] So, essentially it is possible that any agreement won't follow established international practice on simply drawing a line where the oil is and where the nations are. 91% to Scotland would be incredibly unlikely
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[quote]Scotland would be a tiny country outside the E.U with half the country lacking motorways.[/quote]Isn't that the case if they're part of the EU, anyway?
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Yeah, but they're [i]inside[/i] the E.U at the moment :P The Nationalists expected to be allowed to remain in the E.U on the basis of the U.K's membership, but doubt has been cast on that (for that matter doubt has been cast on the U.Ks membership if Scotland leaves - unlikely that we'd need to reapply though). At the moment the Scottish GDP is very average. They'd go from being part of a top ten economy to being somewhere around the economic influence of Belarus and Iraq
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Yea but they will have a big brother to look after them and get them what they want.
