Jazzscot wrote:
Says it all really!
A Telegraph reader!
One needs to read a bit deeper and a bit wider I think Ziggy.
Don't believe everything the press tells you (They have an agenda don't you know)
a little more research before you start quoting figures is needed. Scotland more than pays for itself.
if you wished us Scots were not to be a burden to you maybe you should vote us out of the UK in a new referendum.
A recent study showed that it was people born outside Scotland that caused us not to split.
Ditto really.
I assume you read one of the left wing papers or something. As you say, they have an agenda, and I am sure whatever you read has the same agenda.
Figures can be twisted and manipulated in whatever way suits. How do you think both sides of the debate argued totally different things based on the same figures?
The facts though are that Salmond's figures relied heavily on tax revenue from the oil. That's now less than half of what it was, and will be less in future.
Without the oil, Scotland is running a MASSIVE deficit. You're a teacher aren't you? So I assume you know the difference between deficit and debt, because many left wing politicians don't, and claim they'll "pay off" our deficit in the next parliament. Bull. A deficit can't be paid off, only balanced out.
As for research before quoting figures, which figures are incorrect, because the $36 I quoted clearly says 'some estimates' and I didn't claim any figures regarding Scotch sales drying up, though it's about £300 million less in 2014 than 2013, it's quoted in the Telegraph, but also various other sources:
http://www.cnbc.com/id/102552802
A quote from Churchill:
'Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance and the gospel of envy, it's inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery'
Socialism would be perfect if humans weren't such total cnuts. Human nature, greed and always wanting more than your neighbour will always be the downfall of any form of socialism.
There was a good quote in that recent film Interstellar.
When he realises that they've gone to that planet with no hope of saving mankind.
The other guy says to him, if you had have known you were coming here to start a new human race (from all the frozen eggs they have on the ship, the apparent 'back up' plan) then you wouldn't have come. However if you thought coming here could and would save your daughter and YOUR family, you are selfless and come without question.
Humans are selfish and greedy by nature. Nothing will change that.
Just look at what countries like the US and China are pumping into the atmosphere, regardless of whether or not it will cause catastrophe. They don't care, because all they want is short term profit and growth. There's no common human spirit or desire to further the human race, it's all about what we can get now for ourselves.
And that is why socialism will always be a total failure, no matter how good it sounds when it's spouted by millionaires like Miliband, Salmond and 'the wee lassie with the tin helmet'.