I'm an idiot !!! , We wouldn't have GERs in an Independent Scotland its a Westminster invention. Which part of that can't you get that pickled walnut around. Do you have OCD or something ? when I do answer the question and I have several times you just keep asking it again, ONE More time Paddy (and you sure are living up to your name) income, expenditure and borrowing in an Scotland. would be done differently ! 70% of Scotland’s nominal operating deficit was due to £4.1 billion of interest payments on debt we didn’t need. If Scotland had been an independent country over the last 32 years we would have a cash surplus of around £50 billion even if we assume we would still have had the same expenditure including payments for banking collapse and nuclear weapons etc. If we had invested some of that £50 billion in a sovereign oil fund we would probably now have a much larger fund than Norway’s and our economy could be 25% larger than it is today. And that is still possible.. Ok there is a deficit at the moment but if we had control of our own economy we have the the resources and means to reduce that deficit !! THAT'S HOW WE WOULD DEAL WITH IT. Now your question is answered for about the 20th time !!!! we would be able to grow our economy which we can't do now. Oil and Gas prices won't always be that low,

I'll ask you a question .. Do you think Scotland is a poor country and unable to stand on its own two feet ?