Oil companies warming to Salmond

[Indy]

The oil companies seem to be angered by Osborne and enamoured by Salmond.


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[photogold]

it could be because Osmond is costing them millions and Salmond is trying to protect them. The oil industry makes millions every year and the UK economy has been propped up by oil revenue for 20 years. I am looking forward to the day when Scotland gets all the oil revenues it is due

[Lachlan09]

Originally Posted by photogold

it could be because Osmond is costing them millions and Salmond is trying to protect them. The oil industry makes millions every year and the UK economy has been propped up by oil revenue for 20 years. I am looking forward to the day when Scotland gets all the oil revenues it is due

This is like a rewind to the early 1970's for me. I remember Margo MacDonald saying the same thing, that it was Scotland's oil and its revenues would pay for Scotland's this that and the other and Red Clydeside shop-steward Jimmy Reid (then a Communist) telling her it would never happen. I was angry at him but knew in my heart he was right.

[Indy]

I remember seeing 25,000 Scots marching in Stirling in 1977 (1976?) on Bannockburn day and if the election had been held then we would have had independence.

I never did understand what happened.

The slogan, 'It's Scotland's Oil' was working and then suddenly the Brit nats managed to convince the Scots they were financially poorer with oil.

2 years later Thatcher began her onslaught on Scotland and the north of England.

Was Thatcher the final straw? With Salmond's political genius yes. Without, no, just scarring.

Thank God for Salmond.

New Slogan :

It's still Scotland's Oil.