Andrew Wilson - Economic advisor to Nicola Sturgeon

[BCram]

Think there might be something your friends assertion Deeranged but there has never been an explanation how the deficit can be overcome. GERS figures are supposed to show the size of the deficit but the nationalists dispute the validity of the calculation. I can't remember the name of the report that made clear the oil revenues were enough to make Scotland a wealthy nation. It was done to deprive the Nationalist movement of this fact that made independence a prosperous probability, possibly even a certainty.
Oil prospects have plummeted and so the additional tax revenues are not available. I think that Andrew Wilson's report was very disappointing for the economic case for independence. In fairness to him he has retained his credibility by creating a realistic report which is to be praised.
I don't know why the independence economists can't produce a convincing case, so I am still in the doubting side of the discussion.

[noahrab]

Think there might be something your friends assertion Deeranged but there has never been an explanation how the deficit can be overcome. GERS figures are supposed to show the size of the deficit but the nationalists dispute the validity of the calculation. I can't remember the name of the report that made clear the oil revenues were enough to make Scotland a wealthy nation. It was done to deprive the Nationalist movement of this fact that made independence a prosperous probability, possibly even a certainty.
Oil prospects have plummeted and so the additional tax revenues are not available. I think that Andrew Wilson's report was very disappointing for the economic case for independence. In fairness to him he has retained his credibility by creating a realistic report which is to be praised.
I don't know why the independence economists can't produce a convincing case, so I am still in the doubting side of the discussion.

6yrs on and they still can’t tell us what currency we’d use if independent.

Hardly inspiring.

[BCram]

Yes. It does seem odd that there isn't a case that has academic rigour to support it.

[islaydarkblue]

Think there might be something your friends assertion Deeranged but there has never been an explanation how the deficit can be overcome. GERS figures are supposed to show the size of the deficit but the nationalists dispute the validity of the calculation. I can't remember the name of the report that made clear the oil revenues were enough to make Scotland a wealthy nation. It was done to deprive the Nationalist movement of this fact that made independence a prosperous probability, possibly even a certainty.
Oil prospects have plummeted and so the additional tax revenues are not available. I think that Andrew Wilson's report was very disappointing for the economic case for independence. In fairness to him he has retained his credibility by creating a realistic report which is to be praised.
I don't know why the independence economists can't produce a convincing case, so I am still in the doubting side of the discussion.

A couple of weeks after the latest GERS figures were published I asked the woman who runs the shop where I purchase my Sunday Times what she was saying about these figures. This person is very pro independence and is quick to try to sell me the pro independence newspaper The National.
She replied that the latest GERS figures were Westminster propaganda and a pack of lies.
This is the mentality of the pro independence supporters. They think that everything will be wonderful in a ‘Brigadoon’ independent Scotland.
In my opinion they are living in ‘dream world’.

[noahrab]

A couple of weeks after the latest GERS figures were published I asked the woman who runs the shop where I purchase my Sunday Times what she was saying about these figures. This person is very pro independence and is quick to try to sell me the pro independence newspaper The National.
She replied that the latest GERS figures were Westminster propaganda and a pack of lies.
This is the mentality of the pro independence supporters. They think that everything will be wonderful in a ‘Brigadoon’ independent Scotland.
In my opinion they are living in ‘dream world’.

These are the people you’ll never convince.

They want independence because they hate the English.

Its as basic as that.

[Deeranged]

A couple of weeks after the latest GERS figures were published I asked the woman who runs the shop where I purchase my Sunday Times what she was saying about these figures. This person is very pro independence and is quick to try to sell me the pro independence newspaper The National.
She replied that the latest GERS figures were Westminster propaganda and a pack of lies.
This is the mentality of the pro independence supporters. They think that everything will be wonderful in a ‘Brigadoon’ independent Scotland.
In my opinion they are living in ‘dream world’.

It certainly seems to be the mentality of the pro independence lady who runs the shop where you purchase your Sunday Times. It's a bit much to say all pro independence supporters think the same way though.