Do you support a separate Scottish Republic?

[Graham]

[Graham]

You don't think the British goverment will freely give you access to the Oil revenue do you?

That's called stealing where I come from and not very respectful.

[Germanicus]

What are the differences genetically between the English and Scottish? If any at all.

The Scots are Irish Gaels, all the British Celts in Scotland and the border were pushed south into north Wales.

[ruthenia]

That's called stealing where I come from and not very respectful.

like scots stole english empire no?

[Germanicus]

That's called stealing where I come from and not very respectful.

How can it be called stealing? whilst Scotland is part of the union it was entitled to all the benefits, it surely cannot be sensible to let Scotland move the goalposts whenever it feels like it, come on, this is a grown up world?

[Waidewut]

I haven't got an opinion on this, because I don't know exactly how different are the Scots and English in the ethno-cultural wise. And with ethno-cultural I mostly mean linguistics.

[Graham]

March 2012
Unemployment
Scotland: 8.2%
UK: 8.2%

Public Sector employment
Scotland: 22.5%
UK: 20.4%

2010-11

OECD GDP per capita
Scotland $41,189
UK $35,715 (without scotland)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...GDP_per_capita

current budget deficit:-
UK deficit, £97.8bln(6.6% GDP).
Scotland deficit £6.4bln(4.4% GDP)

net borrowing:-
Scotland, £10.7bln(7.4% GDP)
UK, £136.1bln(9.2% GDP)

The average Scot has a savings pot of £28,340, compared to the UK average of 23,208

[ruthenia]

I support Scottish independence or at least the restoration of the pre-1707 situation (so the Union of the Crowns could be kept intact for the time being) so Scotland can prepare itself in all peace and quiet for full-blown independence. I am sure that England would also benefit from it as Scotland and England would no longer keep each hostage and the English can then establish their own parliament as well.

yeah, good old days when english reich was supreme over scottish vassal peasant fiefdom.

[The Lawspeaker]

yeah, good old days when english reich was supreme over scottish vassal peasant fiefdom.

That's more like now. There could be a personal union between Scotland and England in the form of Lizzie and a customs and currency union but that's it.

A customs union or a currency union wouldn't even be necessary.

[ruthenia]

OECD GDP per capita
Scotland $41,189
UK $35,715
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...GDP_per_capita

did oecd only visit aberdeen now? how can a country with dump like glasgow be rich like celtic kitten was?