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Agreed, I guess the sums being so large it’s difficult to get sensible exact figures. But it does seem that England provides the lions share of making money, as opposed to a much smaller contribution from Scotland. And London seems to provide most of the income for England.
So if the ‘high proportion of the UK economy is services’, and that service is provided by London (and England), how will Scotland be financially viable to survive on her own. And I’m not trying to be condescending. I read that the oil reserves are dwindling, and that a majority of Scotland’s trade is with England. Granted trade is a two way thing; but as the UK moves on with new trade deals, an independent Scotland might have to find new trade partners.
Scotland has 20%-30% of Europe's renewable potential, this will make money (and green money) at a very good rate
Currently we produce lots more electricity, gas, oil than we use (these figures are not counted in GERS) which will help the perceived defecate
The bottom line- if Scotland was actually bleeding them dry why is Westminster fighting tooth and nail to keep Scotland in a toxic relationship.
Services by their nature (computers and people) are easily moved, when Scotland goes independent there will be a move of companies so they can stay in the EU
As far as the referendum goes I think we wait until next year to see the manure meet the air conditioning as Boris (remember the guy who could not arrange Big Ben to bong in Friday night) fails to deliver the goods and blames the EU (for being consistent)
In the Scottish opinion poll over 70% of over 65's intend to vote NO to indy again where it is well over 60% for people under 60.
We need to wait for time as over 30,000 people 'move on' each year in Scotland.