North Sea Receipts......

[mushroom25]

fall to a 50 year low....
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-business-36388621

if the referendum result had been "out", where would the SNP's bullish business plan be now?

[retrocop]

//where would the SNP's bullish business plan be now?//

Davey Jones locker with the rest of the small fry??

[mikey4444]

Up the Swanny !

[DTCwordfan]

SNP = Stupid Numpty Planning.....

[woofgang]

You cannot have cheap fuel and still have the industry make high profits....

[retrocop]

Tell that to fat Alex. He tried to promote Scexit on the strength (lack thereof)of North Sea oil. Happy to sell the Scots a pup it would seem but fortunately most were too canny to swallow it.

[Peter Pedant]

Nicola S always looked on London as the Bank of Last Resort ?

so the punter darn Sarth would bankroll it once the money had run out

[douglas9401]

'Bullish'. Never closer to an anagram. :-)

[douglas9401]

And to be fair, Pedro, the receipts have kept many a complacent, useless dosser of an MP, to say nothing of the UK's workshy layabouts, in a manner to which many could only dream.

We've lived on a bawbee's worth of oats and nettles before and Brigadoonians can do it again!
Wee Nikki fae Boots will see to it.

[anneasquith]

Impossible to answer. The the result was ' stay '

[ToraToraTora]

well unusually I agree with Anne, who's to say what would have happened if they'd left the UK, Scotland would have been useful to study how they get on outside the EU.

[Quizmonster]

Most rational people are aware that oil is a volatile commodity...in more ways than one! In the EU alone...never mind the wider world...Denmark, Finland, Slovakia, Ireland and Croatia are all countries with populations around 4 or 5 million, just as Scotland is.
How many of them have oil? Not a lot, yet all are independent nations getting along reasonably successfully. Why would anyone assume that Scotland - uniquely - could not have done the same with or without oil?