Now how did we fall from 8th to 14th all of a sudden. Heres a thought for you, lets say we vote Yes, we give trident 5 years to leave. During that 5 years we create a government run Scottish oil company ( a national oil company ). We leave the east coast to all the oil companies that won the rights to explore and develop that side of our waters and we take the taxes from them which Westminster currently receives, we then keep the west coast just for our newly created Scottish national oil company to explore and develop funded by the taxes we receive from the foreign companys who are reaping the benefits from the east coast. In 10-15 years time how far up that table do you think we will be? Scotland ‘one of world’s wealthiest countries’ Published: 11 March 2014 Scotland is one of the wealthiest countries in the world, according to official figures. Picture: Jane Barlow 138 comments By SCOTT MACNAB Scottish independence: Scotland is one of the wealthiest countries in the world, official figures today showed. It ranks 14th in world league tables, four places higher than the UK as a whole, prompting the SNP Government to declare Scotland “can more than afford to be an independent country.” But Scotland has tumbled down six places from the 8th spot it occupied last year under a previous methodology, according to the OECD measure of GDP per head of population. Both Scotland and the UK maintain their rankings compared to updated international comparisons for 2011. The rankings are dominated by small independent countries with 7 of the top ten nations in the OECD in 2012 having populations of less than 10 million people. Finance Secretary John Swinney will confirm the figures in a speech to Edinburgh University tonight on the economic opportunities of independence. “There is no doubt that Scotland can more than afford to be a successful independent nation,” he will say. “With our vast natural resources, skilled work force and broad-based industrial strengths, Scotland performs strongly against international competitors. “This analysis shows that an independent Scotland would be the 14th wealthiest nation per head within the OECD compared to that of the UK which is ranked 18th and with the powers of independence we would be able to harness that wealth for the benefit of people in Scotland.” The updated research shows that including North Sea output, Scotland’s GDP per capita in 2012 was 11 per cent above that of the UK in the measure of 34 OECD countries.
Posted on: Wed, 03 Sep 2014 05:42:48 +0000