I saw the following posted on another site. I'm not Scottish and can't vote today, but this seems very compelling. I'm interested in the counter arguments. Apologies if this has been posted/discussed previously
SCOTLAND WITH ONLY 9% OF THE UK POPULATION HAS:
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
100% of the Whisky industry
SCOTLAND WITH ONLY 1% OF EUROPES POPULATION HAS:
25% of Europes tidal energy
25% of wind power
10% of wave energy
WE HAVE A:
17 billion pound 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 aeroservice industry
4.5 billion pound whisky exports industry
3.1 billion pound life sciences industry
And 350 million pounds worth of textile exports
OUR WHISKY INDUSTRY IS 25% OF THE WHOLE OF THE UK FOOD AND DRINK INDUSTRY
OUR OIL IS WORTH OVER ONE POINT FIVE TRILLION.
And on the subject of OIL Scotland has 100% more oil than previously
thought (oilandgaspeople 3/09/214). 37,000 jobs will be created due to
this over the next two years (Bank of Scotland).
Scotland has also paid more tax per head than the UK every year for the past 33 years.
Scotland sold almost a 100 billion in goods and services worldwide last year.
Scotland is a net exporter whilst UK IS A NET IMPORTER with 1.4 TRILLION IN DEBT.
SCOTLAND IS THE 14TH WEALTHIEST COUNTRY IN THE DEVELOPED WORLD
THE UK IS THE 18TH"