The whole point of Independence is that we would run our economy differntly. Trying to say the recent GERs figures is an indication of how a Indy Scotland would is totally cr@p and disingenuous. Scotland is a very Wealthy Country ! Over the last 40 years has knowingly diverted billions of pounds of Scottish revenue to Westminster. Evidence such as the McCrone Report, classified as top secret for 30 years by the 1970s Labour Government but now publicly available, states that “the SNP had underestimated the nation’s oil wealth” and that an independent Scotland would “suffer from an embarrassment of riches”. That report was written in 1974 and classified as secret due to worries about “restless natives” if its facts were known by the masses in Scotland. It was eventually made public only after a Freedom of Information Act request in 2005. The Britnats are creaming their punts about the lastest GERs but the never ever mention the fact that for 32 years up until 2012 Scotland had run a surplus. We are paying a share of the WM debt of 64 Bn .If Scotland had only to pay for its own debts then we would have been building up massive surpluses of cash for at least a generation. Cash that could have been invested in a sovereign oil fund to secure our pensions and to secure the NHS, cash that could also have been invested in infrastructure or the business of re-industrialising Scotland to create a larger, more successful and wealthier nation than we have now. When you look at GERS estimates of Historic Fiscal Balances with the interest on non-Scottish debt deducted it shows Scotland had a cumulative public sector surplus until 2004/05 and a cumulative deficit of £49 billion by 2011/12. The sharp decline from 2005-12 was generated by the banking crash during the stewardship of Westminster Chancellor Alistair Darling, who is of course now head of the No Campaign. With Independence we could start reversing all this mismanagement and start to build our economy creating a very managable income and spending policy. Scotland would also have a share of the UK assets and of course the debt but we would be in a far better position to manage this with full control of finances Independence would bring.