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rob, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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This is a good point, well the torries bit anywayI suspect the revenue comes form Oil and I suspect we'd keep that.
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CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Wed 14 Mar 2012, 15:03,
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Either you want Scotland and their contribution to the economy or you don't.The oil comes mainly from Scotland. The rest from the English side of the North Sea.
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Scotland, or the waters around?fuck it, point less arguement. I'm not running this country, or things'd be run betterer.
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CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Wed 14 Mar 2012, 15:14,
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"Even if all revenue from North Sea oil and gas had come to Scotland, the country would have had a 'persistent deficit'," says Professor Arthur Midwinter, an adviser to the Scottish Executive's finance committee.
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Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 15:16,
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Everything else I've read on the subject says quite the opposite.That if Scotland had gained independence first time around in the 1970s it would now be as wealthy as Norway or Switzerland.
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