General News Scottish independence campaign lied about prospective oil revenue

Oh how good it feels to read this. The SNP, like all nationalist parties, are unlike other parties they are just downright unprofessional. Yes all parties thrown mud, but the manner of the language of the SNP just disgusts me, every interview Salmond was full of cocky arrogance and you could see it in his body language. I accept that everyone in politics twists the truth, but the SNP just downright lied throughout, they said they had legal advice from the EU saying we would not have to apply, then spent taxpayers money in courts trying to stop the fact they lied being published. Then there was the £200,000 spent in the courts to try and stop The Guardian from publishing figures on Salmond's council tax replacement as it resulted in huge increases from everyone. It was a referendum that should never have taken place but people were so eager to believe the lies that he had to say, I'm just astounded that so many people believe him when he says everything is Westminster's fault and would vote for independence without even knowing what currency we would use is just baffling. I asked my friend who was a yes voter about the currency and he said 'it's not that big a deal for me', it's a MASSIVE deal, it is like your boss telling you we can't pay you next month and we don't know when we can.

But the repeated outright lies that so many believed was mind blowing, every year Government Expenditure Service Scotland shows that Scotland gets more from the UK than it puts in, these figures are black and white and the SNP know this. So either they are falsifying official records (a criminal offence) or they are lying to the public, which one do you think it is? It's not hard to work out! I hear all the time, even now on FB from SNP supporters 'the SNP balance the books' that is an outright lie, the Scottish deficit is 35% higher than the UK one. They spent this whole time campaigning 'Westminster doesn't give us enough' like Oliver Twist asking 'please sir can I have some more' but underspent by £444m million. How can they dare complain about not getting enough when they underspent. They literally CANNOT COUNT!

There seems to be a notion that oil 'is the icing on top, we don't need it', another lie! We spend every penny of our oil revenue as we need it! They say 'we want an oil fund', but you can't spend and save the same money, it's one or the other. And any industry that makes up 15% of your economy is not 'icing on top', it's vital! The banking sector only makes up 16% of the UK economy and look at the mess that caused when it crashed!

They kept going on about Norway, without actually understanding the first thing about the country, my dad used to work over there and we went out to see him if a project was delayed and it wasn't exactly 'wow', yes it's beautiful and very very clean, but one pint cost £11 shopping was ridiculously expensive. The Norwegian's live very frugal lives, we used to go into fashion shops where there would be 80% off because the clothes had been on display so long the tops of them were sun bleached from sitting out for so long. You cannot have Nordic levels of public services and Moroccan levels of tax, you cannot spend what you save and you cannot be a large economy without your own currency.

It was an absolute fantasy which had no economic basis, it was largely idealistic, racist (there was so much anti-english sentiment from SNP supporters) and patriotic. And the idea that if you voted No your are un-patriotic was shocking. You cannot fix inequality and poverty if you have a smaller economy, it cannot be done. The SNP have been sitting on powers since 2007 and not using them, how on earth can they ask for more without using what they already had. The threats of 'we won't pay our debt' were just absolutely atrocious and we've seen how wrong things are going in Greece with a very similar government.

They spent all the time saying 'the Tories cut this, they cut that' without realising we are doing the best out of almost every country in the world! If they could not do the best for Scotland in the UK, how on earth could they do it as a country on its own.

 

And to think.. this scoundrel of a party will have over 50 MPs in Westminster. What a treat.

 

So the figures were incorrect and the plunging world oil price would have ripped a huge hole in the Scottish governments budgetary forecasts? What a surprise! The whole argument for independence was built on quick sand.

I just hope Scottish voters remember all of the shit that the SNP peddled during the independence campaign on May 7th, especially voters in Gordon.