If only Scotland had voted yes

I brought this up with many of my yes voting friends. Quite litterally the answer I am getting is:

''nanananananana not listening''.

**NB I am not saying all yes voters are like that :)**
 
Stop scaremongering and bullying.

Scotland would have built up a £100Bn soverign oilfund by now, from all the oil personally extracted by Alec Salmond and Biohazard. They would simply have dug up more to cover the drop in price.
 
I read that yesterday and you know we will end up proping up any north sea oil investments if the crap hits the fan

scotland should have left!
 
sb89 said:
If Scotland had voted yes, Scotland would still have been in the UK until March 24, 2016.
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Which is being used as an argument along of the lines of "There would have been plenty of time for it to recover" - which isn't the point; the point is that oil price is extremely volatile, making their financial 'plan' about as robust as the fabled house built on the sand.
 
My heart bleeds for oil companies that routinely made 100's of billions of pounds of profit every year thanks to the excessively high oil prices in years gone by now having a reality check after years of living the good life, all the while being able to deflect the blame onto the governments and their taxation policies.
 
GeneralD said:
I brought this up with many of my yes voting friends. Quite litterally the answer I am getting is:

''nanananananana not listening''.

**NB I am not saying all yes voters are like that :)**
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I made the point many times on here and non of the yes voters listened.

Was going to make the same post acrually. I just filled up with gas at $2.05 a gallon. In the summer I filled up at nearly $4!

Predictions are for continued decline AFAIK.
 
Stringy said:
Which is being used as an argument along of the lines of "There would have been plenty of time for it to recover" - which isn't the point; the point is that oil price is extremely volatile, making their financial 'plan' about as robust as the fabled house built on the sand.
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I agree. I wasn't using it as an argument, I'm just merely pointing out that it wouldn't have effected Scotland (in the same way that some posters are thinking atleast) at this point in time if there had been a Yes vote.
 
This is all irrelevant anyway because the North Sea isn't Scotland's oil it's the UK's, so if Scotand went independent then rUK would have been entitled to a fair share of it, or other benefits to a similar value in compensation. The SNP aren't idiots, they knew this and the risk of a decline in oil but obviously didn't want to highlight it in their spending plans. North Sea oil is still viable, so there's plenty of revenue for the UK government there. All that's happening is cutbacks on investment because it doesn't make sense to.
 
MissChief said:
My heart bleeds for oil companies that routinely made 100's of billions of pounds of profit every year thanks to the excessively high oil prices in years gone by now having a reality check after years of living the good life, all the while being able to deflect the blame onto the governments and their taxation policies.
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Just spare a thought for the tens/hundreds of thousands of people losing their jobs while you save 20p a litre on fuel... ;)
 
D.P. said:
I made the point many times on here and non of the yes voters listened.

Was going to make the same post acrually. I just filled up with gas at $2.05 a gallon. In the summer I filled up at nearly $4!

Predictions are for continued decline AFAIK.
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Yes, I wonder how long before the govt starts uping fuel duty as a result.
 
If only scotland had voted 'yes' then maybe they'd shut up moaning about it.

Oh, wait.... the rest of us would just have to endure them gloating instead.

No magnanimity north of the border for nationalists, either in defeat or victory.
 
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