Monday, May 20, 2013

VOTE FOR INDEPENDENCE, UNLESS YOU ARE STUPID

On 18 September 2014, the Scots, in a referendum, will answer the question: "Should Scotland be an independent country?"

The stupid part of the Scottish population will vote 'No'.

UK governments 'hold back Scotland'

We recently visited a Scottish town which should be rich; it has produced a number of clever scientists; it has a whisky distillery; it is near to oil fields; it has rich forests on all sides; it has rivers full of salmon.

James Clerk Maxwell, a Scot, was one of the world's top scientists. He identified and wrote the equations of the electromagnetic field. That made possible the mobile phone,satellite communications, radio and television.

But this Scottish town no longer has a town council; it no longer has a railway station; it no longer has a community centre; some of its buildings look as if they are falling down; local roads are potholed.

London has stolen much of this town's wealth.

Scotland's oil wealth has been squandered by London prime ministers such as Thatcher and Blair.

About half the oil is still to come.

The Scottish Government's inaugural Oil and Gas Analytical Bulletin in March 2013 has a post-independence scenario which could see "oil and gas production in Scottish waters generating £57bn in tax revenue between 2012-13 and 2017-18".

The London government collects a lot of tax money from Scotland and gives very little back.

Scotland has 8.4% of the UK population, but in 2009-2010 paid 9.4% of the UK tax revenue.

The Scottish government has had budget surpluses, while the London government has been getting ever deeper into debt.

The London government deregulated the banks, including the big Scottish banks, and allowed them to be run by 'spivs'.

The world's top city

Scotland would be much richer if it was independent.

Scotland has always led the world in scientific discoveries.

The report of the Fiscal Commission Working Group has confirmed that "by international standards Scotland is a wealthy and productive country, and has the potential to be an economically successful independent nation."

Some people suspect that there is a Bilderberg plot to break up the United Kingdom.

We doubt this, because the mainstream media has made it very clear that they think that the Scots are too stupid to run their own country.

Scotland would be the 6th richest country in the world if it had INDEPENDENCE

The revenue from Scotland's oil, over the last several years, amounts to £3.48 trillion.

Over the past 30 years, Scotland has produced more oil than Dubai and Abu Dhabi combined.

Over the past 30 years, Scotland has produced almost as much oil per capita as Saudi Arabia.

According to Dennis Healey, a former UK Finance Minister:

1. Scotland will prosper under independence thanks to North Sea oil.

2. London politicians are "worried stiff" about losing the oil money if Scotland becomes independent.

3. The UK Government "underplayed the value of the oil to the country".

The London government does not want people to know the enormous value of Scotland's oil, in case it leads to the Scots wanting independence.

Denis Healey: Westminster 'worried stiff' about losing North Sea oil

Lord Healey says:

"I think they are concerned about Scotland taking the oil.

"I think they are worried stiff about it.

"I think we (England) would suffer enormously if the income from Scottish oil stopped but if the Scots want it, they should have it and we would just need to adjust.

"But I would think Scotland could survive perfectly well, economically, if it was independent."

North Sea oil output to rise by a third over five years - The Independent

In 1974, Professor Gavin McCrone was asked by Edward Heath's Conservative government to work out the value of Scotland's oil.

The report concluded that an independent Scotland "would tend to be in chronic surplus to a quite embarrassing degree."

The government kept the report secret.

It was only released in 2005 under freedom of information legislation.

BBC News - Oil and gas 'jobs boom' forecast for North Sea

Lord Healey, now 95, told Holyrood magazine: "I think we did underplay the value of the oil to the country because of the threat of nationalism but that was mainly down to Thatcher.

"We didn't actually see the rewards from oil in my period in office because we were investing in the infrastructure rather than getting the returns and, really, Thatcher wouldn't have been able to carry out any of her policies without that additional five per cent on GDP from oil.

"Incredible good luck she had from that."