Historic night for Scotland

[fartingfran]

Spine tingling stuff!

There's 20 years worth of oil left in the North Sea. (That has been discovered and that we have the technology to extract at an acceptable cost.) That figure will probably go up as technology improves and the price of oil goes up.

That's according to a geophysicist friend who works for a drilling company.

I'm not worried about oil running out. By the time that happens Eck'll have got us so shit-hot at renewables we'll be able to live off the power we're selling to England

Aye with the wind turbines that dinna go round?

It's a shame Iain Gray is stepping down. SNP could have asked him to keep talking and we could have all lived off the huge amount of hot air he omits...

i think a lot will change re oil anyway... prices will go up as it becomes harder to extract, so the value will remain stable iykwim, although not everyone will be able to afford to waste it. meanwhile, we are a country with plenty of wind and waves.

I think you're right Aitch. 20 years is no time at all though.

We are. But there is a shit load of work to be done on wave and wind power.

I do think that Iggle Piggle DC has royally fucked us over with his oil company tax. They can afford to pay, obviously, but they won't. They'll go elsewhere. And it's Scots who will lose their jobs.

twoifbysea- please don't include me in any comments about ignorance. It's time we all had a long hard look at what is fair. And silly comments like yours just make it impossible to have rational debate, but then, why am I surpirsed? you've got a cushy number. And don't degrade your argument by saying childish things like ' we're worth 000s more than you'. These things need to be discussed, especially when we're faced with the nightmare that your countrymen left behind.

see if we did go for independence, btw, what would happen to the banks, particularly RBS? i take it they would still be owned by the uk taxpayer, but who would they be, then?

Although the way things are going water may become our most valuable resource.

sucked in, cedarcottage... aren't you tired of hearing DC say that? as if there wasn't, ya know... a global financial crisis?

What men left what nightmare behind?

cedar thinks the big scottish boys did it and ran away...

I think they might have to split things like that somehow Aitch with a % of shares owned by the Scottish and UK(?) governments. The whole process will be a total nightmare of complexity.

I think that it is a very sad day when MN decides that anything that may upset the Scottish can not be printed. iwrote nothing insulting, indeed mine were all facts, not spurious anti-Tory war-mongering, which is what seems to be mostly on this thread. I am anti-no-one, I just want fairness for all. We should all strive for that. MN for shame.

then stop being silly, cedarcottage, and blaming what you consider to be the failings of a westminster parliament on where the incumbents were born. for shame, etc.

cedar, it's time your comedic talent were recognised, preferably someplace else.

Spurious anti-Tory war-mongering? Where's that then??

Well, I think the result today was a vote for fairness....

If Cedars looking for a new job, I hear Scottish Labour are looking for a new idiot leader....

Rangers FC are looking for some new people, too.

Add message | Report | Message poster AitchTwoOh Fri 06-May-11 23:30:52
then stop being silly, cedarcottage, and blaming what you consider to be the failings of a westminster parliament on where the incumbents were born. for shame, etc.
Hear hear aitch!

Although I do think anyone is entitled to give their opinion on this thread.

och yes, trixy, but look at the trolling shite that they are coming out with. let's have a discussion by all means, but leave the patronising insults out of it.