Scotland's finances

[DodgyAgent]

Sorry but you whooshed me there.

Alcohol like drugs and cigarettes kill people

[MicrosoftBob]

Alcohol like drugs and cigarettes kill people

Alcohol like drugs and cigarettes don't kill people rappers do!

[Batcher]

Alcohol like drugs and cigarettes kill people

Only if you massively overindulge.

[Unix]

Alcohol like drugs and cigarettes kill people

So does fat (or sugar) is you abuse it. So what?

[DodgyAgent]

hardly an ethical or sustainable business is it?

[OwlHoot]

Yep. Getting close to that 90% point of no return.

That graph isn't as clear-cut as one might think, because GDP includes Government spending, and in the 1920s and late 1940s I imagine that was a much lower proportion of total GDP than it is today.

So in a way, although apparently lower today, the national debt may be much higher, perhaps the highest ever, as a proportion of non-Government GDP, which is more worrying as that is all that really matters.

[Batcher]

hardly an ethical or sustainable business is it?

Whisky has been produced for hundreds of years so I would call that pretty sustainable.

[TestMangler]

Whisky has been produced for hundreds of years so I would call that pretty sustainable.

The whisky is a curse ! Like the oil ! (And it's also not included in GERS Scottish GDP).

Funny that the BBC can report ISIS taking over a couple of wells as devastating news, cause they can use it to dominate the world, but all the oil in the North Sea is apparently (and always has been) worthless.

[FatLazyContractor]

So does fat (or sugar) is you abuse it. So what?

Don't bring me into this, you

[minestrone]

The whisky is a curse ! Like the oil ! (And it's also not included in GERS Scottish GDP).

Funny that the BBC can report ISIS taking over a couple of wells as devastating news, cause they can use it to dominate the world, but all the oil in the North Sea is apparently (and always has been) worthless.

I doubt it is going to bring in 3 billion a year at the rate this is going, that is certainly in line with the numbers it was making previous the to the oil price spike.

And don't give me the nonsense about oil not factored into the pre referendum promises, the amount of times I heard "I look out into the sea and see oil wells then I look into the land and see food banks" pish from the nationalists...