Reply to: An independent Scotland might be a great idea for the Scots

[Churchill]

Shrinks in the cold mate. Maybe piss it all over the bottom of the wall, but not up the wall.

It's the skirts you see.

Thanks duely noted.

[Incognito]

I wouldn't trust the f*ckers with that kind of wealth, they'd only piss it up the wall.

Shrinks in the cold mate. Maybe piss it all over the bottom of the wall, but not up the wall.

It's the skirts you see.

[Churchill]

Well if only Scotland was sitting on 90% of one of the largest oil and gas fields in the world.

I wouldn't trust the f*ckers with that kind of wealth, they'd only piss it up the wall.

[Incognito]

Which of course will require massive subsidies

Can Scotland pay its own way? | Politics | The Guardian

Well if only Scotland was sitting on 90% of one of the largest oil and gas fields in the world.

[Incognito]

What? There's more than one?

When it comes to successful football cities, no. When it comes to lambs to the slaughter, yes.

[BlasterBates]

....the SNP laid out a plan to succeed North Sea oil with a giant renewable-energy industry.

Which of course will require massive subsidies

Can Scotland pay its own way? | Politics | The Guardian

[Churchill]

Have you ever been to any other Scottish city apart from Glasgow?

What? There's more than one?

[Churchill]

P.S. Gordon Brown is a Scottish twunt.

ftfy

[AtW]

No it couldn't, because the people in London would amount to a "permanent establishment" which would mean that profits would be taxed in the UK.

That's what highly paid tax lawyers are for - say some well known search engine company has got massive office in London with lots of people yet they paid half a million in corp tax because actual sales are handled by their subsidiary based in Ireland: so profits go there, costs here.

[Incognito]

Can't see it working, TBO. England is full of "who do they think they are?" back-biting socialist whingers; but Scotland is even worse.

As soon as all the conspicuous wealth became evident, with nouveaus buying up all the grouse moors and so on, the Scots would vote in a socialist Government to start pinching it all.

P.S. Gordon Brown is Scottish remember.

Have you ever been to any other Scottish city apart from Glasgow?

[OwlHoot]

If the SNP were to hold a referendum on independence; win (unlikely I know); and then to get it right, Scotland could have a chance of ending up not a miserably over-indebted nation populated entirely by the unemployed, but a dynamic global financial centre.

Can't see it working, TBO. England is full of "who do they think they are?" back-biting socialist whingers; but Scotland is even worse.

As soon as all the conspicuous wealth became evident, with nouveaus buying up all the grouse moors and so on, the Scots would vote in a socialist Government to start pinching it all.

P.S. Gordon Brown is Scottish remember.

[doodab]

People can stay in London whilst registration of business will move to Scotland - this way staff in London can be treated as cost base where as profits can be taxed (lowly presumably) in Scotland.

This could actually work if Scotland was independent.

No it couldn't, because the people in London would amount to a "permanent establishment" which would mean that profits would be taxed in the UK.

[Incognito]

People can stay in London whilst registration of business will move to Scotland - this way staff in London can be treated as cost base where as profits can be taxed (lowly presumably) in Scotland.

This could actually work if Scotland was independent.

You mean they'd be our Bobs? Well Sas certainly fits the bill.

[AtW]

And it has the infrastructure (and enough houses) to accommodate a few hundred thousand extra people does it?

People can stay in London whilst registration of business will move to Scotland - this way staff in London can be treated as cost base where as profits can be taxed (lowly presumably) in Scotland.

This could actually work if Scotland was independent.

[doodab]

The houses are lovely, the city is very accessible, and the lifestyle vastly superior to those on offer in London or Geneva (assuming you don't mind the wind).

And it has the infrastructure (and enough houses) to accommodate a few hundred thousand extra people does it? I doubt that the quality of life there would hold up very well under the strain.