The British electorate never got the opportunity to vote in a referendum in favour of the U.K. joining the new European Union in November 1993.
The mainland EU leaders have never liked the U.K. Parliament as all they wanted was our money to prop up other ‘lame duck’ EU countries.
Now the remaining 27 countries are having to increase their annual contributions and they are not happy about it.
Good riddance to them.
If Salmond had adopted the Norway model concerning the income from the taxation on a barrel of oil how was he going to raise that loss of taxation. It takes years to build up a large annual income.
Salmond could of course have adopted the Norway Government’s taxation policy on alcohol which would have doubled the price of a pint of beer. There would certainly have been no need to introduce minimum pricing as the price of the cheapest 70cl bottle of spirits would have been a lot dearer than it is at present in Scotland.
Here is something for you to investigate. In November 2019 I discovered this information by accident whilst during the internet.
https://www.whiskyadvocate.com/most-...kies-peatiest/
When the price of oil collapsed to about $20 er barrel in 2015/16 Nicola Sturgeon begged the Chancellor of the Exchequer to reduce the tax rate on a barrel of oil in his next budget. He did as she wished but that means that th taxation received on a barrel of oil is less than it was in September 2014.
The SNP would have to recalculate the taxation that they would receive from a barrel of oil coming out of U.K. waters.
Of course they could just reissue their ‘fantasy land’ White Paper Scotland’s future.
Nobody’s mentioned what would happen if the residents of the Orkney and Shetland isles voted to go it alone and declare independence from Scotland. I have read recently that the residents of both islands are fed up with the centralisation of everything by the SNP controlled Scottish Government in Edinburgh.
As a result of the income from oil landed on both islands they would be very wealthy.
Meanwhile it would knock a hole in the SNP calculations for income from taxation especially as the oil from North Sea oil pipeline into Grangemouth is not flowing to the same extent as previously.
Why have there been so many rigs sitting tied up in the Dundee harbour front if oil production is booming in he North Sea.