The New Fat Scotland 'Thanks for all the Fish' Thread.

Moe_The_Bartender

What makes you think the EU will let Scotland rejoin when it fails to meet most entry criteria?

Herzlos

Moe_The_Bartender wrote: »

What makes you think the EU will let Scotland rejoin when it fails to meet most entry criteria?

Because we're completely aligned with them, they've got a track record of letting countries join that don't meet the entry criteria, and various voices within the EU have said they'd welcome us.


Even if we don't rejoin the EU, we can hopefully negotiate more realistic terms than the UK who are still asking for everything that's been rejected constantly for 4 years now. We can keep free movement (which is good for the economy), regulatory alignment (also good for the economy), both of which seem to be huge sticking points for the Tories.

Labsuper

Herzlos wrote: »

Because we're completely aligned with them, they've got a track record of letting countries join that don't meet the entry criteria, and various voices within the EU have said they'd welcome us.


Even if we don't rejoin the EU, we can hopefully negotiate more realistic terms than the UK who are still asking for everything that's been rejected constantly for 4 years now. We can keep free movement (which is good for the economy), regulatory alignment (also good for the economy), both of which seem to be huge sticking points for the Tories.

Except Scotland will be an economic basket case. Austerity?...you aint seen nothing yet.

mayonnaise

Labsuper wrote: »

Except Scotland will be an economic basket case. Austerity?...you aint seen nothing yet.

Scotland has just 8.3% of the UK population.
But they do have:

32% of the land area
61% of the sea area
90% of the fresh water
65% of the natural gas production
96.5% of the crude oil production
47% of the open cast coal production
81% of the untapped coal reserves
62% of the timber production
46% of the total forest area
92% of the hydro electric production
40% of the wind wave and solar energy production
60% of the fish landings
30% of the beef herd
20% of the sheep herd
9% of the dairy herd
10% of the pig herd
15% if the cereal holdings
20% of the potato holdings, and
100% of the Scotch Whisky industry.
They also have a:
£17 billion construction industry
£13 billion food and drink industry
£10 billion business services industry
£9.3 billion chemical services industry
£9.3 billion tourism industry
£7 billion financial services industry
£5 billion aero-service industry
£4.5 billion whisky exports industry
£3.1 billion life sciences industry, and
£350 million pounds worth of textile exports.
Scotland also has 25% of Europe's wave and wind energy potential.
And finally £1.5 trillion worth of oil and gas reserves.
All that from just 8.3% of the population!

Some basket case.

Herzlos

I'm pretty confident that we'd do better on our own than under Westminster. Everywhere else that's left the British Empire seems to have done pretty well, actually.

Arklight

mayonnaise wrote: »

Scotland has just 8.3% of the UK population.
But they do have:

32% of the land area
61% of the sea area
90% of the fresh water
65% of the natural gas production
96.5% of the crude oil production
47% of the open cast coal production
81% of the untapped coal reserves
62% of the timber production
46% of the total forest area
92% of the hydro electric production
40% of the wind wave and solar energy production
60% of the fish landings
30% of the beef herd
20% of the sheep herd
9% of the dairy herd
10% of the pig herd
15% if the cereal holdings
20% of the potato holdings, and
100% of the Scotch Whisky industry.
They also have a:
£17 billion construction industry
£13 billion food and drink industry
£10 billion business services industry
£9.3 billion chemical services industry
£9.3 billion tourism industry
£7 billion financial services industry
£5 billion aero-service industry
£4.5 billion whisky exports industry
£3.1 billion life sciences industry, and
£350 million pounds worth of textile exports.
Scotland also has 25% of Europe's wave and wind energy potential.
And finally £1.5 trillion worth of oil and gas reserves.
All that from just 8.3% of the population!

Some basket case.

Scotland is a mini dynamo. It could be outperforming England on every metric. The weather is utter sh1t3 though. Winter for eleven months of the year.

In that case, Scotland and the North could be the industrial engine of Britain, with the South being it's California. If the South wasn't full of bitter, right wing, Tory voting, xenophobes, who hate immigration and education. Which isn't very California like at all.

Thrugelmir

mayonnaise wrote: »

Scotland has just 8.3% of the UK population.
But they do have:

32% of the land area
61% of the sea area
90% of the fresh water
65% of the natural gas production
96.5% of the crude oil production
47% of the open cast coal production
81% of the untapped coal reserves
62% of the timber production
46% of the total forest area
92% of the hydro electric production
40% of the wind wave and solar energy production
60% of the fish landings
30% of the beef herd
20% of the sheep herd
9% of the dairy herd
10% of the pig herd
15% if the cereal holdings
20% of the potato holdings, and
100% of the Scotch Whisky industry.
They also have a:
£17 billion construction industry
£13 billion food and drink industry
£10 billion business services industry
£9.3 billion chemical services industry
£9.3 billion tourism industry
£7 billion financial services industry
£5 billion aero-service industry
£4.5 billion whisky exports industry
£3.1 billion life sciences industry, and
£350 million pounds worth of textile exports.
Scotland also has 25% of Europe's wave and wind energy potential.
And finally £1.5 trillion worth of oil and gas reserves.
All that from just 8.3% of the population!

Some basket case.

Is the SNP proposing nationalising these assets then?

Shakethedisease

Thrugelmir wrote: »

Is the SNP proposing nationalising these assets then?

Just the full tax take to Holyrood. Whisky should be a bit of a money spinner for them eh.

mollycat

Arklight wrote: »

Scotland is a mini dynamo. It could be outperforming England on every metric. The weather is utter sh1t3 though. Winter for eleven months of the year.

You've never been here have you?

Not once. :rotfl:

Thrugelmir

Shakethedisease wrote: »

Just the full tax take to Holyrood. Whisky should be a bit of a money spinner for them eh.

With foreign ownership the net profit flows out of the country......