Saturday 30 July 2016

The Stolen Scottish Seas and Oilfields Lie



There are multiple versions of this lie online all over the Internet but they all exist on one central myth that Tony Blair and Donald Dewar moved the Scottish Sea border at the time of Scottish Devolution  and England gained Scottish areas of Sea including several Oilfields. (that no-one can name ..hardly surprising when they never existed in the first place )

 There are Online Petitions, Youtube Videos, Websites, Meme's all on the same subject.

You have to wonder about the intelligence of anyone starting a petition because they actually believe this ? Or perhaps they simply made it up for the sake of deliberately trying to spread a well known lie for the purpose of creating grievance ?




Yet no one can give the names of the Oilfields stolen.......Why?....because it simply didn't happen






















































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This version is on a Website called   http://www.oilofscotland.org/scotlands_stolen_sea.html  
 and it should surely be obvious to most people that any website that has banners all over the Website offering access to "Top Secret Reports and Scandals" and "Secret Oil Reports" are most likely not secret at all but are simply made up Lies/scams ? 


























Needless to say that the "Stolen Seas" article is listed as being "Secret" too with fictitious figures for the value of the "Stolen" Oil....."This unjust act secretly passed, without the consent of the Scottish People took 15% of oil and gas revenues out of the Scottish sector of the North Sea taking £2.2 Billion out of the Scottish economy. This lost revenue is more than the proposed £35 Billion Scottish budget cuts for the next 15 years (£2.16 Billion per year)" It is of course like all the other memes, complete made up nonsense.
So on this website we already have "Secret Stolen Seas", "Secret Scandals" and "Secret Oil Reports "...do you smell anything suspicious yet ?  

 How this particular myth is told from " https://docs.google.com/document/d/16iR4zmlaf3PyU6RiNRtt4bFQt1bQ-q-P23n2xvVQnOg/mobilebasic?pli=1#h.d5zxjj342250 See this debunking fact and many others on the "Live Red White and Blue Book.
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So did Blair move the border and steal Scotland’s Oil?
A quite remarkable Nat meme on social media is the concept that Tony Blair stole some of Scotland’s oil just before devolution to screw the country over. It’s a classic piece of disinformation, implying something that does not exist based on a factual piece of information.
Here’s the claim, which is usually augmented by a line that Westminster stole all the oil in this move:

Okay, so let’s start with the facts:
In 1987, the Civil Jurisdiction (Offshore Activities) Order 1987 defined the border between Scotland and England at sea for civil law. This border kinked northwards from Berwick, within the territorial waters of the UK (13.8 miles out from the land), and then essentially ran parallel out to the end of the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of the UK (extending out 200 nautical miles from the land). So that’s the yellow line and is only in respect of civil disputes in offshore activity.
In 1999, with devolution approaching, Scotland was set to take over the regulation of fishing from the UK. This was an international obligation due to the Common Fisheries Policy, so it was believed that a boundary that would be more reflective of an international boundary between two states would be applicable. Therefore, the median line approach was used. This is the point of drawing the line so it marks the point that is of equal distance from the land of each territory (in this case Scotland and England)

This approach is the starting line for defining an international boundary between two states, and is a good proxy for an international boundary.
This is the red line, as noted above. As you can see, it lies much further north of the original boundary and, therefore, it’s here that the nat meme bases its claim that Blair stole the oil fields contained when the border “shifted”.
The new fishing border was set out in the Scottish Adjacent Waters Boundaries Order 1999.
This order had two effects: firstly to define Scotland for devolution purposes within the (13.8 mile) territorial waters (this was the same as the 1987 border) and to define the border for fishing in the EEZ, and it was here that the median line approach was used.
So, where is the reference to oil in the Scottish Adjacent Waters Boundary Order?
There isn’t one, so how can anyone claim that oil was stolen? Indeed, as a reserved issue, oil had no application to the fishing boundary, which confirmed by the government at the time.http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/lords/1999/mar/23/scottish-adjacent-waters-boundaries

So, who applies the fishing boundary to oil? Well the Scottish Government through GERS and this is mirrored by HMRC when they later produced their hypothecation of Scottish tax revenue. It’s worth making it clear that the Scottish Government are free to choose (or change at any time) the border used for geographic allocation of oil between Scotland and England. However, in their wisdom they have used the accurate median line approach and this is agreed by HMRC in their own independent analysis of the hypothecation of taxation.
So, did the UK government move the border for oil? No, not at all. The border didn’t even move. Scotland simply has two borders between the outside of our territorial waters and up to the EEZ. One for fishing and another for civil jurisdiction, which a cursory glance at the Scottish Government website would tell you.  AS can be see here on  the Scottish Governments very own website.  So No Seas were stolen nor Oilfields Stolen and therefore NO stolen Oil Revenue either.  

 Check Scot Gov website !!


































Twitter thread here where Craig Murray is exposed deceiving people


                                                                                                                                                                                                      
Here are the two links that were posted in that exchange.
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/1126/made/data.pdf
and
http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/lords/1999/mar/23/scottish-adjacent-waters-boundaries

 and here is the record from it being discussed in the House of Commons
https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm199899/cmstand/deleg3/st990323/90323s01.htm

 So it IS very clear that this issue WAS discussed in Parliament where our Laws are made and that
Craig Murray has just been trying to continue the conspiracy theory that it wasn't. Nationalists caught deliberately deceiving yet again ? The facts are clear so why do Nationalists have to so deliberately lie about them ?

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Here we go again with a meme sowing the Seeds of Invented Grievance where they simply don't exist, the McCrone  report was never a "secret" or a document ever planned for Public publication in the first place, it was merely an internal Scottish Office Document for Scottish Ministers , therefore there was no suppression nor any attempt to stop it being published or attempts made to ever keep it "secret", therefore really nothing to hide, you can see McCrone himself explaining what the document was on this link.

 Pay particular attention to what he tells you on the costs of running Scotland's finances. (Expenditure).
Oil is only worth recovering if it costs less to recover and process than it can be sold on the open market for potential profit. 

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7C6CMExtQEo 

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More on the McCrone report can be read here 

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More Stolen Oil memes Debunked here 40 Years of Stolen Oil and other Fairy Tales   

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