User blog comment:VonGlusenburg/Scottish independence/@comment-4206034-20120115095552/@comment-4612798-20120116093706

Devo Max - I bet even Salmond prefers this option. And why the hell Cameron is so against it when would only strengthen the tory position (boo) in England is completely beyond me, the more he opposes it the more likely its going to happen. We (the UK as a whole) have completely wasted the oil revenues (unlike Norway) and have long used it to prop up an unsustainable welfare state. There's a reason we thought we could get away with a Scandinavian welfare state on American style taxes and that's oil. Give it all to Scotland I say - as long as they take their share of the RBS debts.