Economy & Banks

=They'll end up owning Scotland.

Once they realise how miserable it is I'm not sure they'd want it.

Full of midges. Grim.

chavs and pikeys... doesn't single out any race or religion, but single out Jews... mmm...

If we were to value Scotland what would a fair price be?

It might just have been the ravings of a swivel eyed UKIP MP, but I seem to recall that if you take the North Sea out of the equation Scotland is a net cost to the UK, so it might be a positive to get rid of it whilst there is some oil left.

EDIT/ a bit like Hong Kong- we could give the Chinese a 100 year lease.

@ colnago_costa, sorry i'll go back and edit my post....

.... because I forgot about the blacks and asians.

If we were to value Scotland what would a fair price be?

It might just have been the ravings of a swivel eyed UKIP MP, but I seem to recall that if you take the North Sea out of the equation Scotland is a net cost to the UK, so it might be a positive to get rid of it whilst there is some oil left.

EDIT/ a bit like Hong Kong- we could give the Chinese a 100 year lease.

Thru'pence ha'penny

and they're getting a bargain

A fair price for Scotland, are we going to value it like a business as a going concern.

Just so you know the Scots say England is making a net loss and the Scots North Sea Economy is contributing heavily to keeping it afloat.

Its all just bollocks.

The last set of figures from Holyrood statisticians show that for 2008-9, Scotland provided £1.3bn more in revenue than was spent north of the border. At less than 1% of Scotland's GDP, that's not a huge surplus, and it does include a due share of North Sea revenues. Strip out crude and the deficit goes up sharply, to £10.5bn (or 9% of GDP).

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/may/20/can-scotland-pay-its-way

So, if we include the North Sea, we should be able to sell Scotland for ~£5Bn, that's not going to make much of a dent in the costs of RBS collapsing.

@ colnago_costa, sorry i'll go back and edit my post....

.... because I forgot about the blacks and asians.

Racist…

£5Bn.

We should have a whip round.

so does that mean scotland is more fucked than the eurozone / greece ?
it's all that boozing i reckon
as Prince Phillip once quipped " How do you keep them off the booze long enough to do any work "

It must be true

This thread and a qualified level of macroeconomic analysis aren't really on speaking terms are they?

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No Tatty, this thread is how the G8 summit would have played out if everyone had sent black cabbies and white van drivers. ( Any colour driving a black cab) ( Any colour driving a white van)

This thread and a qualified level of macroeconomic analysis aren't really on speaking terms are they?

so very LFGSS.COM

lots of chat no real depth

Full of midgets. Grim.

sizeist

sizeist

discriminator.

but seriously, over-leveraged institutions are like bikes with no brakes. oh wait......

If we were to value Scotland what would a fair price be?

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4x more than England, but alot less than the IoM.

.... because I forgot about the blacks and asians.

Ha! You fucking pussy.

Not even brave enough to call a spade a spade.

Your white, posh-cunt friends would dismay at your pathetic, liberal vernacular.

It's ok, they're on Bikeradar.

Not even brave enough to call a spade a spade.

i'm sure that's not PC

Personal Computer?

I don't think it is only a case of failed banks that fucked up the economy but also politician's bad management and decision making that helped excel the situation/mess that we are in...

Repost I know but worth it

http://m.youtube.com/index?desktop_uri=%2F&gl=GB&rdm=4owzg9h97&reload=2#/watch?v=X0Bkg8zgoYQ

Pip. WTF kinda of a link is that?