User blog comment:Saturn120/Scotland Referendum - Aye or Nay?/@comment-24285234-20140916205250/@comment-25345728-20140917033146

Gunsnadglory, take a look at my response to your other comment. Scotland's industry, agriculture, and oil are more than enough revenue to support it, and grow. Edinburgh is Europe's 4th largest financial city, and Scotland's iron, steel, and shipbuilding industries are some of the largest in all of Europe. Scotland is the industrial backbone of the UK, and without Scotland, the UK will collapse and England will be left with very little. The Euro is probably on the brink of collapse, which will definitely happen within the next century. Scotland leaving now would better prepare it for the future.

As I said in my other post, North Sea oil is not peaking. There's far more oil that hasn't yet been discovered. The North Sea is the largest oil field in the world, and there's plenty more to spare. Norway said that it's oil production will probably peak in 10-20 years from now, which means Scotland has even more time. Even without the oil, Scotland can still sustain itself and remain useful.

The UK leaving the EU will be irrelevant, since the UK itself will probably fall apart after Scotland says Yes tomorrow. My buddies in Scotland and Ireland say that Northern Ireland will definitely go Republican if they leave, and the Welsh might be forced to leave, since Wales gets a lot of it's money from Scotland.

That's EXACTLY what's happening with Scotland. Scotland's industries and wealth are being sucked in like a vortex into England. Why is it that one of the largest industrial nations on earth, with the largest fleet of oil platforms on earth, in the world's largest oil field, has a GDP of only $250 billion? Ireland, without oil, has $210 billion and the 11th best living conditions on earth. Norway is over there, the same size as Scotland (by land), far less industry, and yet, a GDP of >$500 billion with THE world's highest living conditions.

Scotland is being held back and crushed by the UK, and it's time Scotland leaves for good, and becomes wealthy like it deserves.