glasshouse
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Certainly is benefitting from devaluation of £ but wont benefit from brexit i fear.
Except for the fishermen
Except for the fishermen
GOOD NEWS FOR SCOTTISH FARMERS!
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caveman
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"Scottish" oil generating tax revenue?
Your having a laugh?
I'm not very clever, but, I would hazard a guess that the stuff costs more in government hand outs and grants to get it ashore and refine than it ever earns the exchequer.
I would think the greatest tax income from oil, VAT, duty etc, is generated at the pumps and other points of sale and could be loaded onto oil (purchased cheaper) from anywhere in the world.
Your having a laugh?
I'm not very clever, but, I would hazard a guess that the stuff costs more in government hand outs and grants to get it ashore and refine than it ever earns the exchequer.
I would think the greatest tax income from oil, VAT, duty etc, is generated at the pumps and other points of sale and could be loaded onto oil (purchased cheaper) from anywhere in the world.
glasshouse
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So why does the uk govt bother with it? Why did they not just leave it under the north sea?
So Why did tony blair shift the scottish/english maratime boundary 150 miles north in 1999?
Why does norway have an oil fund of nearly a trillion dollars stashed away for a rainy day? Is their side of the north sea able to generate oodles of cash but ours isn't?
its yourself
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Why does Norway that pumps double the oil total Scotland does make 10 times as much tax revenue from each barrel?
Scotland the only country in the world that discovered oil and got poorer. Also the only country not independent. Pure coincidence according to BritNat unionists.
Scotland the only country in the world that discovered oil and got poorer. Also the only country not independent. Pure coincidence according to BritNat unionists.
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Well, atleast you admit your not very clever.
The largest TAX revenue from oil, is taken at extraction.
Scotland holds 60% of Europe's oil, yet as part of the UK is totally skint. Westminster has been utterly wreckless. Squandered the UK's greatest asset, pee'd it against the wall and took us all for a ride.
The sad part is the people of England believe the propaganda bulls**t!t spouted from their leaders that we should be grateful for their incompetence and that Scotland couldn't survive without them.
The way the UK is governed is unsustainable, the debt will never be cleared. No other oil country, in the world, is as poor as Scotland - or has the debt levels of the UK. Every other country has an 'oil reserve'. Money sitting in reserve, like a savings account, incase they need it.
You sure about that? I think more is taken at the pumps.
did they uk not have huge gold reserves not to long ago
I always make myself a cup of tea before I read these political threads!
Some interesting points/views!
Some interesting points/views!
caveman
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Tell me.
How does the amount of TAX revenue taken at extraction compare with the amount of handout given to Scotty land?
Also. How much did/do they receive as a share from extraction licences or whatever?
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Why would I bother engaging with someone who talks so derisive?...
Tell me.
Why, did Westminster fight so hard to keep Scotland in the union? Handouts? What is Scotland to you? A beggar?
caveman
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Because you probably know fekk all about it in reality.
caveman
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Beats me!
Ruth Davidson, leader of the Scottish conservatives, and a strong remain campaigner until Westminster conservatives told her not to be, says she's wants us to have access to the European single market free trade market.
Ruth Davidson made this statement soon after Theresa May announced she wants a hard Brexit severing all ties.
Ruth Davidson calls for single market access - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-38553851
Whatever your political opinions and views are, it must be clear that the politics and policies of Scotland differ from those of Westminster.
Thankfully
Ruth Davidson made this statement soon after Theresa May announced she wants a hard Brexit severing all ties.
Ruth Davidson calls for single market access - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-38553851
Whatever your political opinions and views are, it must be clear that the politics and policies of Scotland differ from those of Westminster.
Thankfully
glasshouse
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That is not on oil, that is on road fuel, ie petrol and deisel.
Nothing to do with oil revenues
glasshouse
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We shouldnt really be surprised at cavemans attitude, given the anti scottish tripe that spews forth from the english press on a daily basis.
RobFZS
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What exactly has Davidson said anything different to TM? Davidson said the 'largest amount of access' and then she goes on to say, she wants to be outside of the customs union via making deals with other countries, so i don't really see how she's saying anything different from TM.
I did not hear Davidson say she wanted to remain in the single market membership, outside the single market = hard brexit.
its yourself
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You deaf?
Here's Ruths story.
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/...riting_history__over_EU_single_market_demand/
RobFZS
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Fullest possible 'ACCESS'
Access is different from membership, membership of the single market = soft brexit
ACCESS only, means hard brexit, when will you learn, it's all very simple.
So you slate TM while praising Davidson for practically saying the same thing, nor do i care what she said last month, TM 8 months ago said she wanted to remain in the SM
What they're both pretty much calling for, is a deal like Canada + services, some might call that cutting all ties, i couldn't care less frankly.