How many Nationalists seriously think this sort of Childish rubbish is true ?
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| The Big Scottish 40 years Stolen Oil Lie made up by Activists trying to control stupid or ill informed people. (The same way it really has been for 40 Years from deceitful Nationalists) |
Clearly designed to suggest Scotland is somehow being robbed but strangely no one in the actual Scottish Government is saying or has ever said anything of the sort. This sort of made up propaganda is invented by either people who are too stupid to know any better or people who do know better but are merely just trying to spread lies with the aim of being able to corrupt the real fact of the matter.
The truth is much simpler , Scotland being a rural economy and a fairly small population spread out sparsely over a large area of land makes Scotland a costly country to serve to provide things like Doctors , Ambulances, Fire Engines , Hospitals, Waste Disposal, etc. The more rural and remote these areas are the more it costs to provide services to them , even more so when you consider the Scottish Highlands and Islands in the far North and North West of Scotland. Think of the long distances Ambulances need to travel to reach people and the often need for emergency services for these particular areas to require a Helicopter service and its maybe easier to understand how it costs more to do than doing the same thing in a more densely packed Town or City where there are many more people living per square mile than in the more remote parts of Scotland.
So in the Graph above the Green dotted line is the amount it costs for Scotland to break even and cover its own "cost to serve" expenses of serving its own population. In the early 1980's when both the Oil price was very high and Oil producing operations were in shallower waters of the North Sea profits were at their highest (as can be seen from the graph) and therefore Government Oil Revenues (Taxes on Oil Profits) were at their best. It can be seen that in the late 1970's and early 1980's Scotland produced good profits from Oil, easily covered its own costs and also contributed well to overall UK Government funds. Unfair many say .."we are being robbed" say others. Well see what happens in 1986 and 1987 ? Profits are virtually just enough to pay our own costs and no more.
Then we move into the period of 1989 to 2005 Oil prices are much lower, therefore Government Oil tax received throughout those periods are much less, so much less that they aren't enough to contribute towards paying our way to cover our own costs and the shortfalls can be see to fall well short of the "break even line" , in these years Scotland has not had to drastically cut its provision of services because the Westminster Government stumps up the cost to "make up" the "spending gap"involved thus allowing us to continue to keep on living in the manner we were doing in better Oil Revenue periods. This process of sometimes contributing to Westminster and at other low Oil Revenue times Westminster then contributing to us back is known as "pooling and sharing". If we didn't have it we would be living in very changeable swinging financial situation of either boom or bust, with good income sometimes and at other times far far less than we need to meet and to pay for the services we have becomes accustomed to.
A very important point to note is that if you take the parts of the graph from above the green line (where we contributed to UK Westminster finances) and try to fit them into all the "gaps under the break even green line" (where UK Westminster finances contributed back to us) it can be seen that there are not enough "positive funds" to fill all the "negative gaps" anyway , which demonstrates that Scotland hasn't been getting "robbed blind " for 40 years at all, nothing like it.
(There are still some years missing from the Graph here pre 1981 that contribute but not much at all but still means that right now in 2016 Scotland is still "in the Green" as far as "Pooling and Sharing" is concerned but it can be seen that its not greatly so and right now in 2016 we are heading into the worst situation with Oil Revenues that the UK Oil Industry has ever known. You can see we are in well negative territory just now and things are expected to get worse until 2021/2022 at which point it will be clear that Scotland over the 40 year period will have been actually an overall net beneficiary from the UK government, so how so many people can try to make out we have been "robbed" in quite obviously completely ridiculous.
An article from around Scottish Referendum time in 2014 from an Oxford Economics Professor explains that situation too, it can be found by clicking here
More on "Pooling and Sharing"and on real issues of Scottish Finances can be found here
Anyone not familiar with the Highland and Island terrain or in understanding the costs of providing services to those areas might find this article useful
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“But what cannot be ignored in the wake of this report is how the SNP used North Sea oil to sell a lie to the people of Scotland.”
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"The fall in oil prices demonstrates just how crucial that relationship is financially: Scotland was able to weather that downturn because of the UK’s broad shoulders.
"Tax revenues from the North Sea collapsed, but funding for Scottish public services remained unscathed. That is how our union works: we share each other’s successes when times are good, and shoulder each other’s burdens when times are tough."
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There are another good debunking of "Stolen Oil Money" memes here too , well worth having a look at to understand the myth and the lies within them.
The Lie is :-
The Truth is :-
Don't forget to read the whole esplanation via the provided earlier link
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New: Yet another recent attempt at trying to create yet another "grievance" story from stolen or hidden Scottish Oil Revenues and other "Exports" within " Scotland's reported GDP" figures is debunked here
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The "Stolen Seas and Stolen Oilfields" and "The McCrone Report" Myths
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The Whisky Export Tax Lie invented by Paul Kavanagh aka the Wee Ginger Dug can be found on this link http://scotsnationalistliedestroyer.blogspot.com/2016/08/the-whisky-export-lie-made-up-by-wee.html
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Understanding the Basics of Scottish Government Oil Revenues
http://scotsnationalistliedestroyer.blogspot.com/2016/08/understanding-basics-of-government-oil.html
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Six Lies on Scottish Governments GERS figures
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The latest Nationalist meme on Oil is now being circulated by all the usual "Useful Idiots ", what its trying to suggest is that Scotland only gets a "population based share" ie "8%" of UK Oil Revenues , the problem here is for Nationalists is that the SNP led Scot Gov's very own website tells them clearly that Scotland gets its "Geographical Share" of Oil Revenues ..its what "Geographical " means folks....ie NOT per population percentage at all. So what Scotland gets is ALL our own Oil Revenues both on Scotland's land and Seas.
Scot Gov Link here http://www.gov.scot/Publications/2017/08/7201
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