Comments by "ScottishRoss" (@ScottishRoss27) on "MPs vote on December election" video.
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@mhffc Sure weeman? ... 'In 2018, Scottish GDP per person is estimated at £32,800 including a geographical share of oil and gas output and £29,800 excluding of oil and gas output. This compares to a UK figure of £31,900 (including oil and gas output)'
'Secondly, in 2018, the figures tell us that Scotland’s GDP was boosted by around £3,000 per person simply because of a geographic share oil and gas output being included in the Scottish figures.'
At a UK level that boost to the economic statistics is equivalent to around £300 per person.'
Read the McCrone report.
'' The document gave a highly favourable projection for the economy of an independent Scotland with a chronic surplus to a quite embarrassing degree and its currency would become the hardest in Europe with the exception of the Norwegian kroner. This led successive iterations of the British government to classify the McCrone report as "secret". This was so to avoid fuelling independence sentiment in Scotland.
Professor McCrone stated that Scotland's GDP would increase by around 20% if North Sea oil were counted as part of it.
In an interview for Holyrood Magazine on 19 May 2013, ex-Labour chancellor Denis Healey (who served in the Cabinet at the time the McCrone Report was submitted) stated: "I think we did underplay the value of the oil to the country because of the threat of [Scottish] nationalism... I think they [Westminster politicians] are concerned about Scotland taking the oil, I think they are worried stiff about it ''
Oil and Gas Production Statistics 2017-18
https://www2.gov.scot/Topics/Statistics/Browse/Economy/oilgas1718
more than Italy they produced 70 million tonnes of oil equivalent (mtoe).
more than Turkey they produced 50
more than Germany they produced 46
more than Ukraine they produced 31
more than Bahrain they produced 20
more than France and Netherlands.
5,4million population
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