This was brutal. Make no mistake, Andrew Neil just ended Nicola Sturgeon. Ended her. Broke her. Snapped her political spine. Absolutely fucking brutal.
+JackoJ15 What didn't she answer?Andrew Kneel has been in charge of bankrupt newspapers all his life and ends up being subsidised by taxpayers money at the old boys network,bbc.
AltaMirage Well name a Minister who makes economic predictions based on 1 years figures.Labour and tory policies got us into trouble by borrowing and selling everything,bailing out banks for their masters,building hospitals and schools with mortgages.I know who the clowns,morons,deaf,blind dumb sheep are,empty headed ignoramus's like you,stronzo
Wings Over Scotland Why? I'm English. Scotland or the Union holds no importance to me and most of my people. I dont like to see Scotland become Spain or Italy however. Lots of English folks here in the far north often have jobs and family in Scotland. But my only concern is protecting us from the consequences of your mistakes. :)
@@GromDarkwater Following the Scotland Acts 2012 and 2016, the Scottish Government has the power to undertake capital borrowing of up to £3 billion (with an annual limit of £450m) and resource borrowing of up to £1.75 billion (with an annual limit of £600m). Resource borrowing can only be undertaken in very specific circumstances, as set out in the Fiscal Framework agreed by the Scottish and UK Governments.General government (UK) gross debt was £1,876.8 billion at the end of the financial year ending (FYE) 2020, equivalent to 84.6% of gross domestic product (GDP), and 24.6 percentage points above the reference value of 60.0% set out in the protocol on the excessive deficit procedure. As far as debt goes, here is some food for thought ....www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2020/07/28/scotland-debt/
@@genghis-mckhan that link is flawed and misses one key point. The UK govt can pass on whatever debt it wants as part of the independence agreement. Scotland won't be going independent like America or Ireland did, it's closer to the UK exiting the EU. The UK can, and will, as they stated in 2014 be giving Scotland about 1/5th of the UK national debt. And just as the UK couldn't take back the money from the EU spent on the Buildings or other aspects of the EU, the UK isn't planning on giving scotland squat in terms of UK assets. Food for thought though, is the Shetlands and Orkney continue with their plans to become crown dependencies Scotland's oil fields effectively become non existent.
@@genghis-mckhan just looked it up. The precedent is set for break away nations where they take debt to an equivalent to population share. In the case of Scotland that's 8.2%. so £172,200,000,000 Scotland's assets would amount to £5,500,000,000 using the same internationally recognised standard. Then we minus off the Covid Relief fund as the UK govt has said they will reclaim this if independence is taken so that's £8.2 billion - leaving £2.7 billion once assets have been minused off. Giving a grand total bill of £174.9 billion, but just cause the UK is nice £175 billion. Scotlands white paper, which is a work of fiction, said the UK will keep the debt and Scotland pay the interest. UK said no, international rules are on the UK side. So unless Scotland wants to be an international pariah it will have to pay off the bill. But seeing as it has no central bank it can't just print the money, it can't borrow on international markets what to do? So an independent Scotland with no assets, no currency, no central bank, no real civil service, no international presence and no real industry will start its life with a debt of £175 billion and a GDP of £66 billion. That's a debt of almost 300%. Which means Scotland finally becomes a world leader, edging out Japan as the nation with the highest debt to GDP. Please tell me how you think this will work?
Not true. She wants Scotland to be ruled from Brussels instead of Westminster! That way instead of blaming the Westminster government for all of Scotland's problems, she can blame the rest of Europe instead.
AltaMirage You attack a person with names because you know they are doing a good job,that makes you stupid.Who says i'm SNP.Former labour voter,never again.Blairs mob were as right wing as any tory,which is why you will back them against a progressive government who look out for the less well off,empty head.
Andrew Neil has taken over Sir Robin Day's mantle as the political interviewer the politicians genuinely fear. It gave me a warm glow inside to see Robin Day put Margaret Thatcher in her place, after she addressed him as "Mr Day". He immediately came back with " it's *Sir* Robin actually"....... Anyone else remember that?
***** I'm sorry, can you show me the economic figures that you are citing? Because the Scottish government's own figures (GERS 2014/15) show that there was a £1400 gap between the money Scotland raises in taxes and expenditure in 2015 alone. This means that taxpayers across the rest of the UK are, in fact, subsidising the Scottish government to the tune of around £700 (the rest part of the UK's overall deficit)
***** Actually, my main point is why haven't you presented the exact figures you're working off of? I have quoted a source. You, as far as I can tell, are making it up as you go along. *On deficit* Scots deficit is over 9% of GDP, the wider UK deficit is 4%. This means that rUK pays half of Scotland's deficit, the rest (as you point out) being debt. *On my 'biased' figures* GERS: Government Expenditure and Revenues Scotland. They are Scottish government figures, not from Westminster. And the Scottish government is run by the Scottish National Party. Therefore, if these figures are biased towards any side it would be towards independence.
+MrScotlandsman We're not scared of another referendum we just can't be bothered going through all the rig-ma-roll again and then at the end of it Scotland will say no for the second and we don't want that now do we. If that happens all of you dumb nats will be jumping infront of trains and throwing yourselfs off bridges.
***** You're also very rude, by dismissing somebody you disagree with as "nonsense". I will give you 24 hours, and will then badger you again for the origin of your economic statistics.
I'm Scotland's child myself, this woman keeps crying for "independence" for Scotland but wants to turn around and hand it to Brussels, I cant stand the woman! Let's stick together and get on with it!
@marilin sinclair with respect , please tel me about your idea of independence for Scotland to break away from UK? And to hand it to Brussels? Your saying Scots are sick of Westminster, ? I understand some of the fellings for no10, down the road but these problems or fellings need to be talked out by sitting round the same table with some grown up conversation, for the love of all thats holy, to keep crying for independence but to want to hand it to Brussels, this is not an independent scotland, so I just dont get it?
Greig you seem to be sure that we will enter the EU. That will be decided after we leave the UK and I presume there will be transition should Yes win the vote. Then after I would say debates and meetings with Scot Gov to decide what we want from the EU and what it expects from us. Then the negotiations would be made public and then a referendum will decide whether we go down that road or not. I am sorry you have this feeling about the EU they have great respect for Scotland and the communities benefitted greatly from EU grants. Once indy happens please go to the EU debates and talks find out more. Also we will have a voice and a veto in the EU at present we are treated like a colony of England that you cannot deny.
Bloody brilliant. As a Scot I can't stand the woman, as well as the party she represents. She keeps on saying she represents the wishes of the people of Scotland - does she hell. She appears to think that power dressing and swanning of to the E.U every so often makes her statesman like - what a joke. We voted to remain part of the U.K in the referendum, what part of that dosent she get?
38% of a (ahem) 'Home Rule' vote and she says she speaks for the Scottish people... Aye right!!! In the 'A Razors Edge' film the main character said of a lady "loving you is the easiest thing in the world" when it comes to wee nippy "Hating you is.... 😀 She's nowt but a media troll, that owes her publicity to a Unionist 🇬🇧 hating bbc scotland. Horrible wee wuman. 😀
Eric Wilson no matter who’s head of the snp they will be hated by the diluted and retarded Scots who are brain washed by the media.They read the Daily Record,the Daily Mail,the Daily Express all owned by English based and English owned newspapers.
I am a proud British person. I have lived in a country for 52 years and I am struck by the people of Scotland who believed in the Labour Party and now the national socialism of Scotland. I'm a Catholic Celtic supporting British man. 2020. Love my Irish, Welsh and English fellow British people. We need saved from ourselves. Usual anglophobic shite! God bless us British.
Absolutely brilliant 👏👏well done Andrew for showing the public the truth and exposing the bullshittery we have to listen to from politicians, without being able to respond 👏👏👏👏👏
....slippery fish these sturgeons are - she talks about the high UK debt in 2008/2009 conveniently forgetting to mention not only WAS there a WORLDWIDE crash, we were being'governed' by a party that couldn't even organise a p*** up in a brewery let alone the country's finances..... "there's no money left" said Labour's treasury note as they were kicked out.
scotland ! if you want to stay or go and start of on you're own i wish you well as a english man .but bloody hell you deserve better than this lady in charge .
@@gavinthompson687 fair play mate . come on you have a population of around 5.5 million and the fm is the best out of that ? come on mate i know you have much better talent than that one trick pony . you deserve better . ps i may be in england and call my self english but my name tate ? i just want wants best for scotland
Call me Smurf Laugh ! I nearly choked on my tattie scone there. A politician who gave away 600 square miles of our maritime border to Westminster in 1999 a trade off for a parliament North of the border.
@@Clan501-Scotland exactly, that's why I don't understand why we want independence? If we were to get independence we would have to lower the 10% deficit which would mean we would have a lower GDP per capita.
Carl Mitchell : As a Scottish woman I totally agree. Just listen to her word salad in this interview, she’s speaking so fast she hopes we’ll miss half of the points she’s trying to make.
@@georgelamb9873 we are all better of out of an unaccountable, unelected European superstate,if the people of Scotland think the eu is so great why didn't they vote for independence when they had the chance? Because most scots are pragmatic enough to realise they are better of remaining in the united kingdom,I like the scots,there a great bunch of people and I'm glad they voted to stay.
Nicola Stoogeon, an Expert in Cognitive Dissonance, ( whats that ED ).This ! lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Clif5dBHQm4/V3QWzfgG6JI/AAAAAAAALD4/9R-M9NRSongH3O3DSzpYKxcX3d_Eh4iOwCL0B/w578-h810-no/13508912_1202512106445707_2049668823636157663_n.jpg
It annoys me how Nicola Sturgeon talks about Scotland being taken out of the EU against it's will when the 38% of Scottish Voters was enough for the leave campaign to achieve a marginal victory so she must acknowledge & accept that Scotland did play a crucial part in the brexit result, also if the Yes campaign had won in 2014 Scotland would not only have left the UK but also they would have left the EU anyway cos the sovereignty of a separate Scotland is entirely different from the sovereignty of a UK that includes Scotland so it would be impossible for Scotland to just automatically stay in the EU as a separate country therefore avoiding the process of applying to be in the EU which is a process that can last for years. All this against Scotland’s will rubbish is SNP hypocrisy.
If you cant look at the Brexit voting result & come to the conclusion that Scotland was taken out of Europe against its will then you are deluded. It wasnt even close, as the Indy ref was, it was practically 2 thirds of Scots votes that voted remain. So I'm afraid I have to upgrade you to "completely delusional".
@@johnedington6083 62 % Scots voted remain in Europe. 48% voted for independence. Once again come voting time in May the SNP will DESTROY the opposition. Theres not even a challenge 😂
@@ianmcdonald1538 They've destroyed education with their left wing woke wankery so they have had plenty of practice at destruction!! That with pissing millions up the wall on fake embassies, crap ferries, bent Indian tycoons etc. Just goes to show the pea brained mentality of your average SNP supporter🤣🤣🤣
Note the body language give aways. Every time she knows she's lying she gives an involuntary small laugh. Any skilled interrogator will tell you this is a subconcious admission of guilt and shame.
You think this was a car crash wait till its exposed how she sold every Scottish person out so she could be part of The Elites and not the cattle. AND when The Scottish people find out what this meant for there children Nicola Sturgeon will be Scotlands most wanted. EXPOSURE is coming Nicola and no one escapes justice will be served for every child raped, murdered, trafficked and sacrificed.
@@ruthjackson4577 well I don't know about human trafficking etc. However, what is happening is the following, councils are running out of money, so badly in fact that now the Highlands region is the worst off place in the entire UK for council funding, so bad is it, that there are talks of raising just our council tax by 50%, Highlanders have been telling me that it's beginning to feel like the start of a second round of Highland clearances, on top of that, Landowners are running wild with the planting of land based wind turbines, (I get it though, I have a degree in environmental science, but FFS. we have more potential from wave power alone than all of the nuclear power generated within the UK right now, except it's not being tapped, fucking Betz's law will show you that wind turbines are only about 33% efficient) lemmie see, ah yes, our world famous education system, we fucking invented education, go look it up, anyway that's fucked, where are our modern engineers, our bridge builders, our Lighthouse designers, fucking anything? where the hell has it gone??? next up: the Scottish NHS..... Fucked, the Scottish Police Force... Fucked, the head guy who runs Scottish Water gets paid more than the Prime Minister of the entire UK, so think about that, both these positions are publicly funded, but one looks after a water utility and gets paid at twice that of the other who looks after the entire UK... and yet the funding source for both jobs comes from Tax payers.... so yeah... Fucked.... Here I could go on all day here, but Fish tits in charge here is no friend to Scotland.
@@BHALT0S governments from all over The World have been involved in Human trafficking . The UK Social Services LOST 18000 children. Running out of Money is not an oversite it is deliberate and its Nicola Sturgeon thats going it all will become clear in The next couple of months. Keep your eyes on America and Trump all out fates are in his hand and dont listen to the main stream media they have been lying to us for years.
Well neither are you are ye? You Highlander you should be ashamed to even think your near good enough. Being born in the Highlands does not make you a Highlander. They are a special breed and you fortunately are not one of them.
Can someone explain to me how leaving the U.K. and being governed by the Eu is independence? Especially as Scotland isn’t even as big yorkshire? They would have no say AT ALL.
she just can't answer any questions and must know Scotland would not survive on its own and she is still trying to get a second referendum on Scotland leaving the uk. god me and virtually everyone I know hate this woman, she ain't got a clue.
OMFG ! I'm not really into politics but understand economics a little and this was probably one of the biggest roastings I seen ! He absolutely blitzed her !!!!
+The Really CrapGamer87 Explain?She answered his questions.He didn't like the answers so went for something that doesn't have anything to do with the argument,straw men arguments.
@@johnbailey6637 It sounds ridiculous, but white Europeans should really consider tightening up our alliances and start taking a stand when we are being degraded in our own countries and maybe even fight for our lands. I don't mind other people with other cultures in all sorts of other countries. I would though, like any other 'race'/ethnicity, to have a 'home' country, multiculturalism is impossible if you just mash everyone together... that's the opposite of multicultural.
@@johnbailey6637 I agree, I blame the left as well... they have figured out how to indoctrinate our 'children' since the 90's through media and entertainment and by pushing guilt on them they are now ashamed to stand up for our cultures and the things the west has done to better the world and the overall intention to do good for their country and families. It's actually quite disgusting to live among so many 'traitors'. I might just end up in civil war or the abolishment of western culture.
+AltaMirage It would be more than a disaster It would be the greatest act of Scottish stupidity the world has ever known. Throw in the importation of tens of thousands of 3rd world migrants per year & the country would be worse than Greece. Our deficit is the worst in the developed world right now & it's going to increase by a few billion next year again. All while they lead their lemmings on a merry dance which in turns keeps investors away as they don't know if they are investing in Scotland = UK or an iScotland in the EU. It's only going to get worse & our economy is going to get hit worse year upon year.
+AltaMirage I hope you are not one of these self-loathing Scotsmen. Who creams his pants at every piece of bad news reported about Scotland. Even if it is propaganda from a biased media and self-interested politicians. ( Too wee too stupid too poor).
+Martin Dornan No sir, he cares about Scotland, you care about yourself. If Sturgeon and her like hsd gotten their way, Scotland would now be in a world of hurt. He's very glad that didn't happen, you wish it had.
+MrScotlandsman The only poll that matters is the one which was held on the 18th September 2014 where the no side won. There won't be a next time because people in Scotland don't want another referendum but even if we did have another one the no side would win by an even bigger margin.
@@derekthompson6442 Dual purpose. The SNP have ensured that Scotland gets free prescriptions and free uni places. Labour or Con would stop that in a heartbeat. When SNP ask them to decode if they want to leave the UK they say no. I don't know how you voted in the last election but, did you agree with every part of the manifesto of the party you voted for? If not, would I be right in suggesting that you agreed with most of what they were offering? Look at it this way, you can have the benefits of the SNP without them having the authority to take Scotland out of the UK without asking you to vote on that single issue.
@@grahamb5930 "Free" aka charges entra tax. Those things sound good on paper but why encourage someone into a pointless degree by making all Higher education free? I could understand making STEM and medical free but people can study art history or the classics for free too which doesn't help anyone. Free prescriptions so people get a GPs appointment to get paracetamol or gaviscon. Nicola Stalin is a complete cretin trying to run an authoritarian nanny state where we worship the state. She doesn't care if she irrevocably changes Scotland so she can become our dictator.
@@Macro_Abuser I agree but, would you vote against it and have to find £40k if you were an 18 year old potential student? Your point about a degree in Art History not helping anyone is interesting as I don't quite agree, it helps the student who gets it and the same goes for the person getting the paracetamol. You are absolutely right in that it has to be paid for but, Sturgeon doesn't need to justify that, she just blames the UK government. Of course she doesn't care, she is a single issue politician who wants to take Scotland out of the UK. It's their stated aim and always has been, the fact that it may destroy Scotland on the way does not matter to her. What she has not got into her thick head is that the people who elect her are happy with the extras as that burden is shared by the whole UK but, they disagree with the main point - independence as was proved at the referendum.
I often wonder how they would manage to fund a health service, a police force, pay the pensions of Scottish senior citizens, their benefits bill etc. Because no funding would come from the UK Treasury to fund these in an independent nation......
survivalisme88 I’m a Scot and agree she needs her feet held to the fire. Good on Andrew. Need more like him. The others interviewers let the fish of the hook all the time
Why is there no interviewers grilling the sturgeon on the new sick kids hospital fiasco? It was supposed to open its doors last year and again in July. It’s sitting fully complete but not fit for purpose so can’t open it’s a disgrace and not a peep from anyone!, something fishy
The SNP argument has been blown apart with the decline in oil prices. This was always assuming that an independent Scotland would attain all those oil supplies in the first place. Scotland is floated on monies heading South to North. It enjoys the relative low taxation rates of the UK whilst enjoying the public services similar to that of Sweden. An independent Scotland would need to drastically increase taxation to maintain these public services or face having to cut services. It is interesting that the Scottish parliament has the power to raise local taxation but chooses not to. This is because the SNP wants to lure Scotland into the folly of independence before an unpopular hike in taxation. Neil should also have pressed Sturgeon on how Scotland would have shifted from an economy reliant on the public sector largely "taking in England's washing" to a private sector driven economy. The SNP want independence at any cost and is happy to fool Scots into thinking independence would be a Utopia.
***** The Barnett Formula means that Scots have their services effectively subsidised by England. Scotland is a bit like Ireland in the EU. It gets back far more than it puts in. And don't give me that bollocks imvolving oil revenues. Re taxation and higher taxation V dividends, not all high earners are in a position to pay themselves dividends as they are employees and to sustain levels of expenditure in Scotland post independence middle income taxation would need to increase too. So your argument is nonsense. Also taking your taxation argument further in a post independent Scotland, don't you think both businesses and high earners will re-locate a few miles down the road to England being faced with prospect of punitive taxes? And what are all these public sector workers servicing the UK going to do for a living? Last time I looked about 20% of Scotland's workers were engaged in public sector or publicly funded organisations. Scotland's population is only about 8% of the UK's. The arguments for Scottish independence are plain daft.
***** So you did raise the oil issue. Britain has been a sovereign nation for over 300 years but North Sea Oil has only been around some 50 years. It is British oil not Scottish oil. If oil was discovered off the Cornish coast we wouldn't call it Cornish oil. I am a Director of my own company and my accountant maxes out my dividend payments at 20% tax. If the top rate of tax increased I would still max out earnings as dividends and minimise my taxable earnings. So again your argument is incorrect because anyone with their own limited company will be doing the same already. It is middle income people in Scotland and senior managers in large companies that would be hammered. Re public sector, not only is Scotland's public sector higher than most countries, as you recognise, but much of that public sector services a UK population of 60m not a population of 8m. Do you think a rUK would want to leave its social security depts in a foreign country? And what happens to all the pension commitments?
***** The "British when we're winning and Scottish when we're losing" argument is just a "chip on the shoulder" Scottish outlook. It doesn't happen. And what about the old Scottish "what's our's is our's and what's your's is our's too" mumbo jumbo . "Its our oil but our pound sterling and our EU membership too". Oil is a British asset not a Scottish one. I hate to be the one to break it to you but Scotland ceased to be a real country 300 odd years ago. Over 150 years before Prussia and Saxe-Coburg ceased to be. Scotland in real terms is no more a country than Cornwall, Rutland, or the Black Country. There are no Scottish embassies and no Scottish seat on the UN or Scottish passports. Maritime law is very ambiguous about ownership of maritime assets in the event of parting of a free democratic long established nation. Plus I think we have reached the point where North Sea oil is a "dead duck" anyway There may be job losses in the public sector at the moment but an independent Scotland would need to shed bucket loads of jobs. The Telegraph in Sept 2014 estimated that as many as 2 in 10 of the 545,200 public sector jobs in Scotland (21% of total workforce) would be at risk and this excluded the nationalised banks. You over state the number of Directors in a position to pay dividends and under estimate the effect on middle income Scotland of tax increases. Re the "Tory subsidies" the Barnett formula has been in existence since 1978 and so was introduced during Jim Callaghan's Labour Government. It covers Wales, and Northern Ireland too so your "Tory" conspiracy theory is nonsense. Even Barnett himself has described the system as a mistake and completely unfair on the English taxpayer. The removal of the formula now it has been in place for so long would be a red rag to a bull to non unionists. You're beginning to sound like yet another "chip on the shoulder glass is half empty" Scotsman to me.
Everyday i wake up i thank god we’re part of the union, and one day closer to her leaving office, cannot stand her or the SNP when will she realise we need london
@@johnedington6083 I agree the SNP are kind of terrible. But for me, they're just a means to an end. If we go independent, we can vote in whatever party we want. Obviously it'll take a good few decades for the country to sort itself out and find its place in the world order. And call me reckless, but I think it's worth living through a poor, mismanged Scotland for a while so my descendants and their peers might enjoy a much better one.
@@hattix7233 I see what you're saying but no matter how you look at it we've more independence in the EU than in the UK. People tend to exaggerate just how much control it actually has. I'm not especially pro-EU anyway. Maybe more of a Norway relationship would suit us better.
This woman is well out of her depth, hope the Scottish people realise, that when Brexit happens, and if Scotland vote to go independent, the EU will screw Scotland in the same way they screwed Ireland, Greece and Italy. She is diluded. This video shows that.
What assets ? most are owned by foreign banks these days. The oil industry in Scotland can't sustain that country on its own. She has no plan , she can't tell the difference between debt and deficit. She will soon know when the EU screws them like Greece if she gets her way
@@TheAuldBob "numptie" and "idiot"? I guess you're right -- any idiot CAN name call. Oh the irony... And for your information, I'm no unionist, so don't be so presumptive. I'm sick of hearing the Scots whine and whinge about the English. The next time the Scots have an independence referendum, they should give the English a say. The English would leap at the chance of booting the whining Scots out of the Union.
@@slurpingticklepest926 That is precisely why they WON'T let the English have a say. They don't want independence. They want power, and the only way they can maintain it is by having a political ideology based entirely on blaming someone else for their problems. If they were independent they would no longer be able to do that and the scales would fall from the eyes of nationalists who voted for them when they realised what a bunch of incompetent freaks they are. As Andrew Neil asked, and Sturgeon repeatedly dodged, what are you going to do about your deficit and how come you have the biggest one in Europe? Rather than ACTUALLY deal with that issue it's much better to splurge Westminster money on God knows what while, at the same time, blame England and Westminster for their own absurd mismanagement.
Oh Cod, that joke is such a tiddler that it would get out of a Spanish trawlers net! I always thought that Salmond was very good at coming across as in control and as confident. Sturgeon comes across as smug and desperate.
So her defence is that a non-crisis-Scotland's books are as well balanced as the UK during a crisis. I don't think she even tried to answer any other question.
I'm sorry, was Scotland not in an economic crisis along with the UK during the recession? Of course it was. Scotland was hit too, just not as hard. During the last crisis, when Scotland and rUK all suffered, Scotland performed better. Today, Scotland is facing its own crisis, and income per head is now 1% lower than the UK average - for the first time in over 3 decades. It's average income is still higher than most UK regions despite one of its most important sectors struggling. Damn, Scotland is sinking.
+gotsda Unemployment in the North East & Aberdeen is a growing problem. January figures showed it was up almost 70% in Aberdeen. It is by no means all right. Scotland as a whole however, saw an increase in employment and surpassed its pre-recession record. It continues to have the highest employment rate in the UK despite major job losses in the NE. The Scottish economy & employment rate are still growing in this incredibly difficult situation, which I can only say shows how strong & resilient it is. Clearly, there is much more to Scotland's economy than oil.
+gotsda You have been fooled, tricked, conned and hoodwinked by the SNP. I played my part in saving Scotland. I voted no to protect us from idiots like you. The SNP's only allies during the indy ref were the Greens and the Socialists, loonies supporting loonies.
+PonzooonTheGreat Over the course of the last 30 years that is the case. Scotland's books were better balanced than the UK's. After all, debts are accumulated over a period of years. Not just one discrete time period in question - when the figures happen to be worse. Scotland's deficit worse than the UK's in 1 out of 30 years? I'd take that.
Am I the only who realized, everytime Andrew Neil makes a good point about Scotland lackingness, she immediately goes to "ohh yeah that's because of London" "oh that, well it's not my fault, it's because we're part of the UK"
The SNP almost make me embarrassed to be Scottish. 'ALMOST'. Remember, we rejected independence because most of us are not stupid enough to fall for their nonsense.
The_Red_Queen Same! She's a cretin and a fraud who thinks she speaks for all us Scots. She's a complete fanny full a pish. I think she's full of baloney but then again I think every single politician out there is the same but she's a danger to my country personally. All of them would sell you up the golden path for their own gains though. Sturgeon wants another 20,000 refugees brought into Scotland if we gain independence. What do they do in time? Correct shag each other which means they become say 40,000 to 60,000. Yet have you tried getting your kids into a local school as it is? Have you tried getting on the council list ( these refugees will become first ) I mean does she not see what's happening in Sweden, Germany or France ? Is it no coincidence there's no attacks in places like Czech Republic, Norway, Japan or Hungary ect.. Yea no mass immigration that's why. She's willing to sell her own people's freedom and put us in danger I don't like the woman at all. On the politicians in Uk in general there all as bad as each other. Tories are causing the NHS to fail on purpose as they want privatisation and they hate anyone who's maybe receiving benefit.. Be it single mothers, disability, health and child care.. If Tories have there way you'll receive nothing. Basically ensuring the poorest of the poor can go die in a hole somewhere as the rich get richer. Cobyn and labour are a bunch of twats and he said he'd have open door immigration basically come and go as you please cause that works right? Just like the guy who rammed his truck into a crowd of people in Germany and then went across two other countries ( France and Italy ) with ease but hey, freedom of movement right..Anyways I'm rambling but had get off my chest lol, bye 👋🏼 in short politicians are all wankers 👍
She gets off to a good start by telling a lie: "It's a pleasure to be with you, Andrew." I can't understand how he gets through an interview with Nicola without a) bursting out laughing, or b) puking up. I had to stop watching. Yet as a resident of Scotland, I could end up with this air-head as my national leader.
Queen Sturgeon Cares Little For Scotland Or The Scottish People, She Does Care Very Much For Queen Sturgeon. Many Millions Of Scots Live and Work In The Rest Of Britain, She Cares Nothing At All For Their Views And Feelings. But However This plays out Let Us All Hope That ------ SCOTLAND WINS ------------ If Divided We Stand Then United We Must Fall.
During their 9 year term,the Scottish school standards ( as measured by OECD ) have fallen from the 6th best in the world to the 22nd and for that reason alone,the cultural marxist SNP should be booted out.
Why does she talk in terms of Scotland and the U.K. Last I heard Scotland is part of the U.K. She was addressing an audience with an on screen banner above her that said "Scotland and the United Kingdom" The SNP needs to get past the referendum defeat and start looking at big picture uk politics in the round.
So Scotland relies entirely on English money. Heres me thinkg that we give billions each year to the british economy and only get about 40% of it back as it were....!! If we kept it all I suspectt hat we would be doing just fine on our own...! This is the only reason that english politicians want to stay united. They need the revenuse from Scotland to help bolster the pigs ear they are making of the economy...!!!!
wow when she isn't bullying and pointing the finger she actually hasn't got a clue what is going on. you can see it in her eyes that when it comes to talking about real issues she has not got a scooby. a very vile, dangerous woman for the people of scotland
+Monkib That dangerous woman allowed people to buy their council houses including Nicola Sturgeon' parents, but guess what Nicola stopped that when she got in power. Its ok for her parents but no one elses. I'l also point out Nicola instead of buying Scottish steel for the Forth Bridge bought it from China, also wants to sell a Scottish airport also to Chinese. The reason being SNP bought it for £1 but was going to cost billions to upgrade I could go on but this subject is actually getting a bit boring.
And now, in 2023, she's lost £600,000, bought a campervan, resigned and been arrested. If Scotland was independent with her in charge, we'd all be living in a massive cardboard box.
An independent Scotland would have had to come cap in hand to the UK had they taken their independence and begged to be taken back into the fold, SNP is a joke...
Scotland deficit is currently 10% of GDP, by far the highest in the EU ! EU are about to fine Spain and Portugal for allowing their budget deficit to exceed 3% of GDP. UK deficit is 6% of GDP, so obviously Scotland is heavily subsidised by the Union, in fact Scots receive £1500 per head more than English from central government...
Some of our exports leave from English ports and are not calculated in our GDP figures and there's £billions, these export figures are counted as English exports.
There is little hope of denting the faith position of British nationalist fanatics who desperately need to believe that Scotland is "Too wee! Too poor! Too stupid!" to be a normal nation, but it is worth repeating for the sake of any non-bigots reading this that GERS tells us NOTHING about the finances of independent Scotland. The 'deficit' so dubiously identified by GERS, to the extent that it is real at all, reflects the position with Scotland as part of the UK. Independence would change the picture completely. Obvious as that fact is, it seems to be completely beyond the grasp of unionists. Driven by a rigid ideology which sees Scotland's inferiority as akin to something divinely ordained, they eagerly believe all manner of insane things. For example, to imagine that the 'deficit' identified by GERS relates to post-union circumstances, it is necessary to believe that Scotland would, not only continue to abide by the socially corrosive and economically destructive policies of the Westminster elite, but also that we would keep on paying for things like the House of Lords and Trident. The reality, of course, is that Scotland's 'balance sheet' after independence would include none of this expenditure. And it would include substantial revenues which are quite deliberately not identified by GERS. But, as I say, there's no point in telling any of this to the typical British nationalist. If the media shrills "£15bn BLACK HOLE!" that becomes their truth. They will never this. They will flatly refuse to ask even the most basic questions about the way GERS is sourced, calculated and presented. The similarities between British nationalism and religious fundamentalism are striking.
Monkib27 SNP predictions for North Sea Oil Revenue this year: £8bn Actual profits: £80m Your party's "economics" is laughable. Keep on defending them. They're idiots and everyone laughs at them.
+HyperionNyx Same as opec and UK's. You make out somehow Scotland's economy is based on oil, how come we're still open for business then with only a slight difference of made up figures provided by HM treasury. By your estimates we should be starving naked and bare by now walking barefoot in a desert of thistle clad hills looking for caves to sleep in. We must be the luckiest poorest country ever to survive a worldwide over supply and least demand for decades. Haha Hahahah. And You think we're daft ya dyed in the wool deluded post empire serf craving shitstirring dipshit.
For the Scottish people that are humble and understand politics. I feel so unbelievably sorry for you. We have banter with each other. Your always welcome south of the border
Please trying researching your facts before coming out with the usual quasi racist nonsense about Scotland re its economic viability. I know I'm wasting my time because your ignorance is entrenched.
In financial year 2017-18, oil and gas production in Scotland (including Scottish adjacent waters) is estimated to have been 73.7 million tonnes of oil equivalent (mtoe). Production in Scotland decreased by 1.7% compared to 2016-17, and accounted for 81 per cent of the UK total (down from 82 per cent in 2016-17).
This was brutal. Make no mistake, Andrew Neil just ended Nicola Sturgeon. Ended her. Broke her. Snapped her political spine. Absolutely fucking brutal.
+JackoJ15 What didn't she answer?Andrew Kneel has been in charge of bankrupt newspapers all his life and ends up being subsidised by taxpayers money at the old boys network,bbc.
AltaMirage Well name a Minister who makes economic predictions based on 1 years figures.Labour and tory policies got us into trouble by borrowing and selling everything,bailing out banks for their masters,building hospitals and schools with mortgages.I know who the clowns,morons,deaf,blind dumb sheep are,empty headed ignoramus's like you,stronzo
AltaMirage You may have a degree in philosophy,doesn't make you intelligent,empty head.All you have stated here is nonsense,servile twit.
+JackoJ15 You might want to prepare yourself for an unpleasant surprise in early May.
Wings Over Scotland Why? I'm English. Scotland or the Union holds no importance to me and most of my people. I dont like to see Scotland become Spain or Italy however. Lots of English folks here in the far north often have jobs and family in Scotland. But my only concern is protecting us from the consequences of your mistakes. :)
Wow, Andrew Neil totally skewered her - it was quite embarrassing in the end...
Lman, you must have watched a different unterview
Neil Munro Nope, I'm pretty sure he was watching the right one.
it probably helps because Andrew Neill has a Degree in Political Economy which helps him fluster many of these politicians
Lman Rman she was owned
She refers to the UK’s debt as “their” debt. She’s nuts.
Given that Scotland spends 1.5x per head than England they need to take 1.5x per head of debt
@@GromDarkwater Following the Scotland Acts 2012 and 2016, the Scottish Government has the power to undertake capital borrowing of up to £3 billion (with an annual limit of £450m) and resource borrowing of up to £1.75 billion (with an annual limit of £600m). Resource borrowing can only be undertaken in very specific circumstances, as set out in the Fiscal Framework agreed by the Scottish and UK Governments.General government (UK) gross debt was £1,876.8 billion at the end of the financial year ending (FYE) 2020, equivalent to 84.6% of gross domestic product (GDP), and 24.6 percentage points above the reference value of 60.0% set out in the protocol on the excessive deficit procedure. As far as debt goes, here is some food for thought ....www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2020/07/28/scotland-debt/
@@genghis-mckhan that link is flawed and misses one key point. The UK govt can pass on whatever debt it wants as part of the independence agreement. Scotland won't be going independent like America or Ireland did, it's closer to the UK exiting the EU.
The UK can, and will, as they stated in 2014 be giving Scotland about 1/5th of the UK national debt. And just as the UK couldn't take back the money from the EU spent on the Buildings or other aspects of the EU, the UK isn't planning on giving scotland squat in terms of UK assets.
Food for thought though, is the Shetlands and Orkney continue with their plans to become crown dependencies Scotland's oil fields effectively become non existent.
@@genghis-mckhan just looked it up. The precedent is set for break away nations where they take debt to an equivalent to population share. In the case of Scotland that's 8.2%. so £172,200,000,000 Scotland's assets would amount to £5,500,000,000 using the same internationally recognised standard. Then we minus off the Covid Relief fund as the UK govt has said they will reclaim this if independence is taken so that's £8.2 billion - leaving £2.7 billion once assets have been minused off.
Giving a grand total bill of £174.9 billion, but just cause the UK is nice £175 billion. Scotlands white paper, which is a work of fiction, said the UK will keep the debt and Scotland pay the interest. UK said no, international rules are on the UK side. So unless Scotland wants to be an international pariah it will have to pay off the bill. But seeing as it has no central bank it can't just print the money, it can't borrow on international markets what to do?
So an independent Scotland with no assets, no currency, no central bank, no real civil service, no international presence and no real industry will start its life with a debt of £175 billion and a GDP of £66 billion. That's a debt of almost 300%. Which means Scotland finally becomes a world leader, edging out Japan as the nation with the highest debt to GDP.
Please tell me how you think this will work?
She still has that smirk in her voice , and will not listen to the figures, so Arrogent .
How funny was her future projection: the deficit has gotten worse since this interview! 🤣
She wants to stay in the EU, so they can go cap in hand for loans.
.....exactly so.
geoffrey collins
....well it won't have as much (in future) as it did before 23 June ;>)
Aye,and England still runs after Scotland's coat tail stealing our cash for bloody years,parasites,every single one.
connor mcewen
....get it through your thick head that ......we know that!!!
Not true. She wants Scotland to be ruled from Brussels instead of Westminster! That way instead of blaming the Westminster government for all of Scotland's problems, she can blame the rest of Europe instead.
horrible woman
+willieriley1 Ad hominem .
AltaMirage Stop blethering nonsense.
AltaMirage You attack a person with names because you know they are doing a good job,that makes you stupid.Who says i'm SNP.Former labour voter,never again.Blairs mob were as right wing as any tory,which is why you will back them against a progressive government who look out for the less well off,empty head.
4 years on....yep...still the highest in the EU.
Nice one SNP!!.
She hates it when she's not in control. Well done Andrew 👏
Andrew, my respect grows for you every time I view an interview by you
Andrew Neil has taken over Sir Robin Day's mantle as the political interviewer the politicians genuinely fear. It gave me a warm glow inside to see Robin Day put Margaret Thatcher in her place, after she addressed him as "Mr Day". He immediately came back with " it's *Sir* Robin actually"....... Anyone else remember that?
"well you should be kind, first minister, as they are sending you quite a bit of money"
I absolutely love Andrew Neil.
***** I'm sorry, can you show me the economic figures that you are citing? Because the Scottish government's own figures (GERS 2014/15) show that there was a £1400 gap between the money Scotland raises in taxes and expenditure in 2015 alone.
This means that taxpayers across the rest of the UK are, in fact, subsidising the Scottish government to the tune of around £700 (the rest part of the UK's overall deficit)
*****
Actually, my main point is why haven't you presented the exact figures you're working off of? I have quoted a source. You, as far as I can tell, are making it up as you go along.
*On deficit*
Scots deficit is over 9% of GDP, the wider UK deficit is 4%. This means that rUK pays half of Scotland's deficit, the rest (as you point out) being debt.
*On my 'biased' figures*
GERS: Government Expenditure and Revenues Scotland.
They are Scottish government figures, not from Westminster. And the Scottish government is run by the Scottish National Party. Therefore, if these figures are biased towards any side it would be towards independence.
+MrScotlandsman We're not scared of another referendum we just can't be bothered going through all the rig-ma-roll again and then at the end of it Scotland will say no for the second and we don't want that now do we. If that happens all of you dumb nats will be jumping infront of trains and throwing yourselfs off bridges.
***** Again: Where are your economic statistics coming from? I have named GERS, what are your figures?
Your silence is deafening.
***** You're also very rude, by dismissing somebody you disagree with as "nonsense".
I will give you 24 hours, and will then badger you again for the origin of your economic statistics.
I'm Scotland's child myself, this woman keeps crying for "independence" for Scotland but wants to turn around and hand it to Brussels, I cant stand the woman! Let's stick together and get on with it!
Not on your life. Scots are sick of Westminster. You keep them we are going it is all in hand do not worry.
Well said we are stronger together.
@@grwuk Well lets just wait and see. You Unionists act as if you know everything as far as Independence is concerned you know very little.
@marilin sinclair with respect , please tel me about your idea of independence for Scotland to break away from UK? And to hand it to Brussels? Your saying Scots are sick of Westminster, ? I understand some of the fellings for no10, down the road but these problems or fellings need to be talked out by sitting round the same table with some grown up conversation, for the love of all thats holy, to keep crying for independence but to want to hand it to Brussels, this is not an independent scotland, so I just dont get it?
Greig you seem to be sure that we will enter the EU. That will be decided after we leave the UK and I presume there will be transition should Yes win the vote. Then after I would say debates and meetings with Scot Gov to decide what we want from the EU and what it expects from us. Then the negotiations would be made public and then a referendum will decide whether we go down that road or not. I am sorry you have this feeling about the EU they have great respect for Scotland and the communities benefitted greatly from EU grants. Once indy happens please go to the EU debates and talks find out more. Also we will have a voice and a veto in the EU at present we are treated like a colony of England that you cannot deny.
may be Dianne Abbott could give her a hand with the numbers.
Lol yes they'd make a great team
I think that she already has.
robert topliss ,
@DJRICKYDEEUK thanks that made me laugh, and some.
Haha so true
Bloody brilliant. As a Scot I can't stand the woman, as well as the party she represents. She keeps on saying she represents the wishes of the people of Scotland - does she hell. She appears to think that power dressing and swanning of to the E.U every so often makes her statesman like - what a joke. We voted to remain part of the U.K in the referendum, what part of that dosent she get?
38% of a (ahem) 'Home Rule' vote and she says she speaks for the Scottish people... Aye right!!!
In the 'A Razors Edge' film the main character said of a lady "loving you is the easiest thing in the world" when it comes to wee nippy "Hating you is.... 😀
She's nowt but a media troll, that owes her publicity to a Unionist 🇬🇧 hating bbc scotland. Horrible wee wuman. 😀
Eric Wilson no matter who’s head of the snp they will be hated by the diluted and retarded Scots who are brain washed by the media.They read the Daily Record,the Daily Mail,the Daily Express all owned by English based and English owned newspapers.
I'm all for an independent Scotland but SNP is NOT the model to go for
Patrick Fitzjohn, congratulations on the dumbest post ever
I am Scottish. All I can say to you is well said sir your spot on.
Nice one Andrew! You had Sturgeon on the back foot, she was clearly rattled given she couldn't give valid answers.....
I am a proud British person. I have lived in a country for 52 years and I am struck by the people of Scotland who believed in the Labour Party and now the national socialism of Scotland. I'm a Catholic Celtic supporting British man. 2020. Love my Irish, Welsh and English fellow British people. We need saved from ourselves. Usual anglophobic shite! God bless us British.
Absolutely brilliant 👏👏well done Andrew for showing the public the truth and exposing the bullshittery we have to listen to from politicians, without being able to respond 👏👏👏👏👏
Andrew Neil; thank you!
Hmmm.. speak for yourself.
....slippery fish these sturgeons are - she talks about the high UK debt in 2008/2009 conveniently forgetting to mention not only WAS there a WORLDWIDE crash, we were being'governed' by a party that couldn't even organise a p*** up in a brewery let alone the country's finances..... "there's no money left" said Labour's treasury note as they were kicked out.
Firemansam
scotland ! if you want to stay or go and start of on you're own i wish you well as a english man .but bloody hell you deserve better than this lady in charge .
Not you place to criticise. The Scots dont care about English opinions anymore!
@@gavinthompson687 fair play mate . come on you have a population of around 5.5 million and the fm is the best out of that ? come on mate i know you have much better talent than that one trick pony . you deserve better . ps i may be in england and call my self english but my name tate ? i just want wants best for scotland
@@dicktate964 Once you learn to write properly we can have a debate!
@@gavinthompson687 ok 🙄
We don't want to go we love the bank of England 🤣
Don’t you just love Andrew Neil. At least he comes prepared for an interview. Sturgeons cheeks are the colour of her suit.
Scotland is going to be in big trouble with this woman.
You are Scottish right ?
+Abdul Smurf
Name a better one ?
Sturgeon won't last much longer, I give her 12-18 months before the SNP get restless and clamour for a new leader.
Call me Smurf
Laugh !
I nearly choked on my tattie scone there.
A politician who gave away 600 square miles of our maritime border to Westminster in 1999 a trade off for a parliament North of the border.
yeboyesful
No, on the contrary, why move our maritime border in order to achieve such
Andrew Neil knows his stuff, can't BS him.
Tory MPs seem to find it quite easy.
Strong economy? Your economy is based on Uk .. it’s not a Scottish economy
That’s why Scotland want its Independence
Scotland earns more per capita than England and Wales combined. Next question?
@@Clan501-Scotland exactly, that's why I don't understand why we want independence? If we were to get independence we would have to lower the 10% deficit which would mean we would have a lower GDP per capita.
As a Yorkshire man I love the Scots, and Scotland. I hope this woman fails, there is strength in unity and we should stay together.
We are not wanting freedom from England we are wanting freedom from Westmonster and I am sure a lot of non-scots would love to do the same
I love my English mates,this bitch needs to fuck off.
Carl Mitchell :
As a Scottish woman I totally agree. Just listen to her word salad in this interview, she’s speaking so fast she hopes we’ll miss half of the points she’s trying to make.
Testicles, if there were strength in unity why leave the EU?
@@georgelamb9873 we are all better of out of an unaccountable, unelected European superstate,if the people of Scotland think the eu is so great why didn't they vote for independence when they had the chance? Because most scots are pragmatic enough to realise they are better of remaining in the united kingdom,I like the scots,there a great bunch of people and I'm glad they voted to stay.
So if everything is so fucking good in Scotland like she is saying then why does she keep whining about how bad things are?
You beat me to it .... well said
Exactly,we in Scotland want rid of the English beggars who are a giant pain in the Rectum.
Nicola Stoogeon, an Expert in Cognitive Dissonance,
( whats that ED ).This !
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Well, where do we start. Unfortunately you won't agree so what's the point.
because that is what the Scottish do and that is why the English are extremely tired of them.
It annoys me how Nicola Sturgeon talks about Scotland being taken out of the EU against it's will when the 38% of Scottish Voters was enough for the leave campaign to achieve a marginal victory so she must acknowledge & accept that Scotland did play a crucial part in the brexit result, also if the Yes campaign had won in 2014 Scotland would not only have left the UK but also they would have left the EU anyway cos the sovereignty of a separate Scotland is entirely different from the sovereignty of a UK that includes Scotland so it would be impossible for Scotland to just automatically stay in the EU as a separate country therefore avoiding the process of applying to be in the EU which is a process that can last for years. All this against Scotland’s will rubbish is SNP hypocrisy.
If you cant look at the Brexit voting result & come to the conclusion that Scotland was taken out of Europe against its will then you are deluded. It wasnt even close, as the Indy ref was, it was practically 2 thirds of Scots votes that voted remain. So I'm afraid I have to upgrade you to "completely delusional".
@@johnedington6083 62 % Scots voted remain in Europe. 48% voted for independence. Once again come voting time in May the SNP will DESTROY the opposition. Theres not even a challenge 😂
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@@ianmcdonald1538 They've destroyed education with their left wing woke wankery so they have had plenty of practice at destruction!!
That with pissing millions up the wall on fake embassies, crap ferries, bent Indian tycoons etc. Just goes to show the pea brained mentality of your average SNP supporter🤣🤣🤣
I sure the fishermen of Scotland are happy they out of the EU
Note the body language give aways.
Every time she knows she's lying she gives an involuntary small laugh.
Any skilled interrogator will tell you this is a subconcious admission of guilt and shame.
Or her mouth moves 😂
Top marks! I love to see her struggle to deal the facts.
I am a Scottish Highlander, and I can say in my opinion, she is no friend to Scotland.
@phil stabler shut it shit stabber
You think this was a car crash wait till its exposed how she sold every Scottish person out so she could be part of The Elites and not the cattle. AND when The Scottish people find out what this meant for there children Nicola Sturgeon will be Scotlands most wanted. EXPOSURE is coming Nicola and no one escapes justice will be served for every child raped, murdered, trafficked and sacrificed.
@@ruthjackson4577 well I don't know about human trafficking etc. However, what is happening is the following, councils are running out of money, so badly in fact that now the Highlands region is the worst off place in the entire UK for council funding, so bad is it, that there are talks of raising just our council tax by 50%, Highlanders have been telling me that it's beginning to feel like the start of a second round of Highland clearances, on top of that, Landowners are running wild with the planting of land based wind turbines, (I get it though, I have a degree in environmental science, but FFS. we have more potential from wave power alone than all of the nuclear power generated within the UK right now, except it's not being tapped, fucking Betz's law will show you that wind turbines are only about 33% efficient) lemmie see, ah yes, our world famous education system, we fucking invented education, go look it up, anyway that's fucked, where are our modern engineers, our bridge builders, our Lighthouse designers, fucking anything? where the hell has it gone??? next up: the Scottish NHS..... Fucked, the Scottish Police Force... Fucked, the head guy who runs Scottish Water gets paid more than the Prime Minister of the entire UK, so think about that, both these positions are publicly funded, but one looks after a water utility and gets paid at twice that of the other who looks after the entire UK... and yet the funding source for both jobs comes from Tax payers.... so yeah... Fucked.... Here I could go on all day here, but Fish tits in charge here is no friend to Scotland.
@@BHALT0S governments from all over The World have been involved in Human trafficking . The UK Social Services LOST 18000 children. Running out of Money is not an oversite it is deliberate and its Nicola Sturgeon thats going it all will become clear in The next couple of months. Keep your eyes on America and Trump all out fates are in his hand and dont listen to the main stream media they have been lying to us for years.
Well neither are you are ye? You Highlander you should be ashamed to even think your near good enough. Being born in the Highlands does not make you a Highlander. They are a special breed and you fortunately are not one of them.
Can someone explain to me how leaving the U.K. and being governed by the Eu is independence? Especially as Scotland isn’t even as big yorkshire? They would have no say AT ALL.
No way we could go it alone I will be voteing no for independents we can't afford it give it a rest Nicola
She could talk under-water with a mouth full of marbles ! A real danger to Scotland and the Scottish economy.
she just can't answer any questions and must know Scotland would not survive on its own and she is still trying to get a second referendum on Scotland leaving the uk. god me and virtually everyone I know hate this woman, she ain't got a clue.
OMFG ! I'm not really into politics but understand economics a little and this was probably one of the biggest roastings I seen ! He absolutely blitzed her !!!!
+The Really CrapGamer87 Explain?She answered his questions.He didn't like the answers so went for something that doesn't have anything to do with the argument,straw men arguments.
+tonto cabron she was a stuttering mess. That' last punch Andrew landed "you should be with all the money they are sending you" hahahaha
She talks as though Scotland is already Independant from UK ? 🏴🏴🇬🇧.
U forgot Wales and Northern Ireland bro
@@kieranlindsay9480 they are part of the uk
@@maggiehemming7904 lol was on about the flags big man
@@kieranlindsay9480 oh I see. Sorry young lady!
@@maggiehemming7904 I forgive you sire!
This person is vile and will ruin Scotland. How she keeps comparing is really unique.
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@@Clan501-Scotland 🇮🇱
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.....The Great Andrew Neil..... the politicians nightmare..... we need more like him.
I'm in a tight spot..... ermmmm....... blame the English
Ha, that's a good one
That's synonymous of all politicians they baffle you with bullshit
@Andrew Ndekwelol why would the queen substadise Scotland??
@Andrew Ndekwe about time Scotland 🏴 fended for themselves and stop expecting England and our taxes to prop them up!!!
She.s racist against the Brits not that I'm bothered I'm english
You can see the worry on her face before the interview starts.
Why on earth is the BBC getting did of Andrew Neil. Great interviewer!
white old rational smart man..
BBC doesn't need that type of person.
@@johnbailey6637 It sounds ridiculous, but white Europeans should really consider tightening up our alliances and start taking a stand when we are being degraded in our own countries and maybe even fight for our lands.
I don't mind other people with other cultures in all sorts of other countries.
I would though, like any other 'race'/ethnicity, to have a 'home' country, multiculturalism is impossible if you just mash everyone together... that's the opposite of multicultural.
Because he doesn't suit the woke, leftie, self entitled liberal image they want to portray.......it's all the rage you know!
@@johnbailey6637 I agree, I blame the left as well... they have figured out how to indoctrinate our 'children' since the 90's through media and entertainment and by pushing guilt on them they are now ashamed to stand up for our cultures and the things the west has done to better the world and the overall intention to do good for their country and families.
It's actually quite disgusting to live among so many 'traitors'.
I might just end up in civil war or the abolishment of western culture.
Why indeed? Racism, age-ism? Both? We now know the BBC is a racist organisation. It admits it gives people jobs based on skin colour.
Go on my son. SO gad and proud i voted NO
+steve lyle shitebag
+AltaMirage It would be more than a disaster It would be the greatest act of Scottish stupidity the world has ever known. Throw in the importation of tens of thousands of 3rd world migrants per year & the country would be worse than Greece. Our deficit is the worst in the developed world right now & it's going to increase by a few billion next year again.
All while they lead their lemmings on a merry dance which in turns keeps investors away as they don't know if they are investing in Scotland = UK or an iScotland in the EU.
It's only going to get worse & our economy is going to get hit worse year upon year.
+AltaMirage I hope you are not one of these self-loathing Scotsmen. Who creams his pants at every piece of bad news reported about Scotland. Even if it is propaganda from a biased media and self-interested politicians. ( Too wee too stupid too poor).
+Martin Dornan No sir, he cares about Scotland, you care about yourself. If Sturgeon and her like hsd gotten their way, Scotland would now be in a world of hurt. He's very glad that didn't happen, you wish it had.
+MrScotlandsman The only poll that matters is the one which was held on the 18th September 2014 where the no side won. There won't be a next time because people in Scotland don't want another referendum but even if we did have another one the no side would win by an even bigger margin.
Luckily there's lots of Scots that think she's mad too.
Aye she is mad but someone in Scotland keeps voting these vile people into power
Many thousands, who are completely ignored by the SNP.
@@derekthompson6442 Dual purpose. The SNP have ensured that Scotland gets free prescriptions and free uni places. Labour or Con would stop that in a heartbeat. When SNP ask them to decode if they want to leave the UK they say no. I don't know how you voted in the last election but, did you agree with every part of the manifesto of the party you voted for? If not, would I be right in suggesting that you agreed with most of what they were offering?
Look at it this way, you can have the benefits of the SNP without them having the authority to take Scotland out of the UK without asking you to vote on that single issue.
@@grahamb5930 "Free" aka charges entra tax. Those things sound good on paper but why encourage someone into a pointless degree by making all Higher education free? I could understand making STEM and medical free but people can study art history or the classics for free too which doesn't help anyone. Free prescriptions so people get a GPs appointment to get paracetamol or gaviscon.
Nicola Stalin is a complete cretin trying to run an authoritarian nanny state where we worship the state. She doesn't care if she irrevocably changes Scotland so she can become our dictator.
@@Macro_Abuser I agree but, would you vote against it and have to find £40k if you were an 18 year old potential student? Your point about a degree in Art History not helping anyone is interesting as I don't quite agree, it helps the student who gets it and the same goes for the person getting the paracetamol. You are absolutely right in that it has to be paid for but, Sturgeon doesn't need to justify that, she just blames the UK government.
Of course she doesn't care, she is a single issue politician who wants to take Scotland out of the UK. It's their stated aim and always has been, the fact that it may destroy Scotland on the way does not matter to her. What she has not got into her thick head is that the people who elect her are happy with the extras as that burden is shared by the whole UK but, they disagree with the main point - independence as was proved at the referendum.
4 years after this interview - Scotland still has a £15 billion deficit.
And also makes up half the entire UK deficit
I often wonder how they would manage to fund a health service, a police force, pay the pensions of Scottish senior citizens, their benefits bill etc. Because no funding would come from the UK Treasury to fund these in an independent nation......
‘That’s not the deficit, that’s the debt’ 😂
I love how Andrew rips into all these politicians.
survivalisme88 I’m a Scot and agree she needs her feet held to the fire. Good on Andrew. Need more like him. The others interviewers let the fish of the hook all the time
Why is there no interviewers grilling the sturgeon on the new sick kids hospital fiasco? It was supposed to open its doors last year and again in July. It’s sitting fully complete but not fit for purpose so can’t open it’s a disgrace and not a peep from anyone!, something fishy
Kenny Williamson Andrew did that on monday it was brill
Looney
Scotland will one day look back on the reign of Sturgeon and shake their collective heads. It's beyond embarrassing...
6 years on and that day is finally coming around, the sheep are beginning to wake up one by one, slowly but surely 😂
As she forgotten we bailed out the royal bank of scotland ...twice
And now Scottish Council tax is the highest its been in 30 years and higher in average than the rest of the UK well done nicola 👍👍
The SNP argument has been blown apart with the decline in oil prices. This was always assuming that an independent Scotland would attain all those oil supplies in the first place.
Scotland is floated on monies heading South to North. It enjoys the relative low taxation rates of the UK whilst enjoying the public services similar to that of Sweden. An independent Scotland would need to drastically increase taxation to maintain these public services or face having to cut services. It is interesting that the Scottish parliament has the power to raise local taxation but chooses not to. This is because the SNP wants to lure Scotland into the folly of independence before an unpopular hike in taxation.
Neil should also have pressed Sturgeon on how Scotland would have shifted from an economy reliant on the public sector largely "taking in England's washing" to a private sector driven economy.
The SNP want independence at any cost and is happy to fool Scots into thinking independence would be a Utopia.
***** The Barnett Formula means that Scots have their services effectively subsidised by England. Scotland is a bit like Ireland in the EU. It gets back far more than it puts in. And don't give me that bollocks imvolving oil revenues.
Re taxation and higher taxation V dividends, not all high earners are in a position to pay themselves dividends as they are employees and to sustain levels of expenditure in Scotland post independence middle income taxation would need to increase too. So your argument is nonsense.
Also taking your taxation argument further in a post independent Scotland, don't you think both businesses and high earners will re-locate a few miles down the road to England being faced with prospect of punitive taxes?
And what are all these public sector workers servicing the UK going to do for a living? Last time I looked about 20% of Scotland's workers were engaged in public sector or publicly funded organisations. Scotland's population is only about 8% of the UK's.
The arguments for Scottish independence are plain daft.
***** So you did raise the oil issue. Britain has been a sovereign nation for over 300 years but North Sea Oil has only been around some 50 years. It is British oil not Scottish oil. If oil was discovered off the Cornish coast we wouldn't call it Cornish oil.
I am a Director of my own company and my accountant maxes out my dividend payments at 20% tax. If the top rate of tax increased I would still max out earnings as dividends and minimise my taxable earnings. So again your argument is incorrect because anyone with their own limited company will be doing the same already.
It is middle income people in Scotland and senior managers in large companies that would be hammered.
Re public sector, not only is Scotland's public sector higher than most countries, as you recognise, but much of that public sector services a UK population of 60m not a population of 8m. Do you think a rUK would want to leave its social security depts in a foreign country? And what happens to all the pension commitments?
***** The "British when we're winning and Scottish when we're losing" argument is just a "chip on the shoulder" Scottish outlook. It doesn't happen.
And what about the old Scottish "what's our's is our's and what's your's is our's too" mumbo jumbo . "Its our oil but our pound sterling and our EU membership too".
Oil is a British asset not a Scottish one. I hate to be the one to break it to you but Scotland ceased to be a real country 300 odd years ago. Over 150 years before Prussia and Saxe-Coburg ceased to be. Scotland in real terms is no more a country than Cornwall, Rutland, or the Black Country. There are no Scottish embassies and no Scottish seat on the UN or Scottish passports. Maritime law is very ambiguous about ownership of maritime assets in the event of parting of a free democratic long established nation. Plus I think we have reached the point where North Sea oil is a "dead duck" anyway
There may be job losses in the public sector at the moment but an independent Scotland would need to shed bucket loads of jobs. The Telegraph in Sept 2014 estimated that as many as 2 in 10 of the 545,200 public sector jobs in Scotland (21% of total workforce) would be at risk and this excluded the nationalised banks.
You over state the number of Directors in a position to pay dividends and under estimate the effect on middle income Scotland of tax increases.
Re the "Tory subsidies" the Barnett formula has been in existence since 1978 and so was introduced during Jim Callaghan's Labour Government. It covers Wales, and Northern Ireland too so your "Tory" conspiracy theory is nonsense. Even Barnett himself has described the system as a mistake and completely unfair on the English taxpayer. The removal of the formula now it has been in place for so long would be a red rag to a bull to non unionists.
You're beginning to sound like yet another "chip on the shoulder glass is half empty" Scotsman to me.
Do You live in a "Utopia" ?
What about No Food-Banks !
Einstein McFarlin An irrelevant comment. No-one was saying the UK is a Utopia.
Andrew Neil is brilliant. Anyone who thinks he's a "Tory bastard" obviously haven't watched him grill enough Tories
Jon Halsey He's still a 'Tory Bastard'. They are even horrible to each other. :)
and of course the BBC sacked him ...likely to be replaced with a diversity hire woke-ist
@Kyle Catterall And the suns brilliance only by your intellect........
No he isn't 😆 fucking idiotic bastard
Well the top Tory bastard right now, the clown PM Johnson, was AFRAID to let Neil interview him.
Everyday i wake up i thank god we’re part of the union, and one day closer to her leaving office, cannot stand her or the SNP when will she realise we need london
Scotland has a really low national self-esteem.
Denmark sweeten and Norway dont need London or Brussels, and there doing very well.
@@johnedington6083 I agree the SNP are kind of terrible. But for me, they're just a means to an end. If we go independent, we can vote in whatever party we want.
Obviously it'll take a good few decades for the country to sort itself out and find its place in the world order. And call me reckless, but I think it's worth living through a poor, mismanged Scotland for a while so my descendants and their peers might enjoy a much better one.
@@countertopconfessions9975 If you join the EU you won’t be an independent country.
@@hattix7233 I see what you're saying but no matter how you look at it we've more independence in the EU than in the UK. People tend to exaggerate just how much control it actually has.
I'm not especially pro-EU anyway. Maybe more of a Norway relationship would suit us better.
I've never seen anyone dodge questions and responsibility with such agility 😂 typical politician
on the contrary, I thought she was flapping every time Andrew Neil pinned her (verbally). Definitely dodging responsibility but little agility!
This woman is well out of her depth, hope the Scottish people realise, that when Brexit happens, and if Scotland vote to go independent, the EU will screw Scotland in the same way they screwed Ireland, Greece and Italy. She is diluded. This video shows that.
What assets ? most are owned by foreign banks these days. The oil industry in Scotland can't sustain that country on its own. She has no plan , she can't tell the difference between debt and deficit. She will soon know when the EU screws them like Greece if she gets her way
That's if they want them
Imagine Krankie and Diane Abbott having an argument about economics.
I would PAY to hear that. Comedy GOLD!
Oh! Come on, numptie. Can't unionists think up political arguments? Any idiot can call names and make tired old jibes.
@@TheAuldBob "numptie" and "idiot"?
I guess you're right -- any idiot CAN name call.
Oh the irony...
And for your information, I'm no unionist, so don't be so presumptive. I'm sick of hearing the Scots whine and whinge about the English. The next time the Scots have an independence referendum, they should give the English a say. The English would leap at the chance of booting the whining Scots out of the Union.
@@slurpingticklepest926 That is precisely why they WON'T let the English have a say. They don't want independence. They want power, and the only way they can maintain it is by having a political ideology based entirely on blaming someone else for their problems. If they were independent they would no longer be able to do that and the scales would fall from the eyes of nationalists who voted for them when they realised what a bunch of incompetent freaks they are. As Andrew Neil asked, and Sturgeon repeatedly dodged, what are you going to do about your deficit and how come you have the biggest one in Europe? Rather than ACTUALLY deal with that issue it's much better to splurge Westminster money on God knows what while, at the same time, blame England and Westminster for their own absurd mismanagement.
Now we don't have Morecombe and Wise they could do a Xmas special.
Wait, isn't this the same person?
He's brilliant. Love it.
You should go and see a doctor.
Sturgeon and salmond before her , they've always been fishy to me .
Hahaha
Great dad joke.. 🤣
Lol
Oh Cod, that joke is such a tiddler that it would get out of a Spanish trawlers net!
I always thought that Salmond was very good at coming across as in control and as confident. Sturgeon comes across as smug and desperate.
Hahahaha
I feel sorry for Scotland being lumbered with this charlatan
Even more of them have got behind her now! Suicide.
@@faustusTVR nah, the SNP are failing 😉🏴🇬🇧🏴
Try not to. They all seem to vote for her. They should get what they deserve and more... I hope so anyway
If Scotland want to be in the eu they will keep voting her in so they've got themselves to blame 😉
She's done well for herself since she left The Krankies
Still funny as f***,though!
Funny...
She reminds me so much of Rab C Nesbitt's wife.
dan292009
Your right, she is "Mary Doll" brilliant...
this always cracks me up
Andrew Neil best interviewer there is come on ITV TV give him a job brilliant mr Neil top man
He knows his stuff..
So her defence is that a non-crisis-Scotland's books are as well balanced as the UK during a crisis.
I don't think she even tried to answer any other question.
I'm sorry, was Scotland not in an economic crisis along with the UK during the recession? Of course it was. Scotland was hit too, just not as hard.
During the last crisis, when Scotland and rUK all suffered, Scotland performed better. Today, Scotland is facing its own crisis, and income per head is now 1% lower than the UK average - for the first time in over 3 decades. It's average income is still higher than most UK regions despite one of its most important sectors struggling.
Damn, Scotland is sinking.
+gotsda Unemployment in the North East & Aberdeen is a growing problem. January figures showed it was up almost 70% in Aberdeen. It is by no means all right. Scotland as a whole however, saw an increase in employment and surpassed its pre-recession record. It continues to have the highest employment rate in the UK despite major job losses in the NE. The Scottish economy & employment rate are still growing in this incredibly difficult situation, which I can only say shows how strong & resilient it is. Clearly, there is much more to Scotland's economy than oil.
+gotsda You have been fooled, tricked, conned and hoodwinked by the SNP. I played my part in saving Scotland. I voted no to protect us from idiots like you. The SNP's only allies during the indy ref were the Greens and the Socialists, loonies supporting loonies.
+gotsda you are as clueless as your dear leader.
+PonzooonTheGreat Over the course of the last 30 years that is the case. Scotland's books were better balanced than the UK's. After all, debts are accumulated over a period of years. Not just one discrete time period in question - when the figures happen to be worse. Scotland's deficit worse than the UK's in 1 out of 30 years? I'd take that.
Oxymoron: 'An independent Scotland within the EU'.
Am I the only who realized, everytime Andrew Neil makes a good point about Scotland lackingness, she immediately goes to "ohh yeah that's because of London" "oh that, well it's not my fault, it's because we're part of the UK"
The SNP has been blaming Westminster for the problems it has created ever it took office.
You had one. You lost. A one time referendum. Get over it
She got a face you'd never tire of slapping
Its all Krankie's mania to me,goes through one ear out the other repetitive nonsense over and over again.
@@MarkLsixtyseven Hey ... that's my line!!!n True though!
Get in the queue !
1964cohibas :
She’s got a face that looks like it’s still being tirelessly slapped, ( by the that comment made me laugh) lol
as a scot i think she should have a good look at the declaration of arbroath and think of king robert the bruce he must be turning in his grave
The SNP almost make me embarrassed to be Scottish. 'ALMOST'. Remember, we rejected independence because most of us are not stupid enough to fall for their nonsense.
Yup. I'm absolutely disgusted by the SNP.
The SNP are a big joke here in Scotland for the most part.
Jonathan Tait you obviously never listened to what he said, so not only are you blind but fucking dumb on top of it.
The_Red_Queen Same! She's a cretin and a fraud who thinks she speaks for all us Scots. She's a complete fanny full a pish.
I think she's full of baloney but then again I think every single politician out there is the same but she's a danger to my country personally. All of them would sell you up the golden path for their own gains though. Sturgeon wants another 20,000 refugees brought into Scotland if we gain independence. What do they do in time? Correct shag each other which means they become say 40,000 to 60,000. Yet have you tried getting your kids into a local school as it is? Have you tried getting on the council list ( these refugees will become first ) I mean does she not see what's happening in Sweden, Germany or France ? Is it no coincidence there's no attacks in places like Czech Republic, Norway, Japan or Hungary ect.. Yea no mass immigration that's why. She's willing to sell her own people's freedom and put us in danger I don't like the woman at all. On the politicians in Uk in general there all as bad as each other. Tories are causing the NHS to fail on purpose as they want privatisation and they hate anyone who's maybe receiving benefit.. Be it single mothers, disability, health and child care.. If Tories have there way you'll receive nothing. Basically ensuring the poorest of the poor can go die in a hole somewhere as the rich get richer. Cobyn and labour are a bunch of twats and he said he'd have open door immigration basically come and go as you please cause that works right? Just like the guy who rammed his truck into a crowd of people in Germany and then went across two other countries ( France and Italy ) with ease but hey, freedom of movement right..Anyways I'm rambling but had get off my chest lol, bye 👋🏼 in short politicians are all wankers 👍
The_Red_Queen I feel for you. Scotland is just about to go into recession. And you still have a 15 billion pound deficit. Oh, dear....
'You would be the austerity party' love it by Andrew Neil.
GOOD ON YOU ANDREW, YOUR PARTING SHOT WAS CLASS.
Andrew Neil is perhaps the most ruthless interviewer in the world
Before you say this you need to look at the interview between James O'Brien and Jacob Rees mogg.
Tend to agree but also try to get a listen to the pre-election interview of jo swinson on radio 4's women's hour. Radio gold.
Ruthless, yes. But never cheap
He goes straight for the jugular, like dracular.
Heard of Mehdi Hasan?
Fantastic interview, I love watching that evil witch squirm. His final comment was sublime!
She gets off to a good start by telling a lie: "It's a pleasure to be with you, Andrew."
I can't understand how he gets through an interview with Nicola without a) bursting out laughing, or b) puking up.
I had to stop watching.
Yet as a resident of Scotland, I could end up with this air-head as my national leader.
Queen Sturgeon Cares Little For Scotland Or The Scottish People, She Does Care Very Much For Queen Sturgeon. Many Millions Of Scots Live and Work In The Rest Of Britain, She Cares Nothing At All For Their Views And Feelings. But However This plays out Let Us All Hope That ------
SCOTLAND WINS ------------ If Divided We Stand Then United We Must Fall.
During their 9 year term,the Scottish school standards ( as measured by OECD ) have fallen from the 6th best in the world to the 22nd and for that reason alone,the cultural marxist SNP should be booted out.
Why does she talk in terms of Scotland and the U.K. Last I heard Scotland is part of the U.K.
She was addressing an audience with an on screen banner above her that said "Scotland and the United Kingdom" The SNP needs to get past the referendum defeat and start looking at big picture uk politics in the round.
+HORNET6 Because in the mind of the SNP Scotland is superior to other parts of the UK and hence talk them down.
+HORNET6 you right Scotland is...so why are they talking about a "Scottish deficit" when they are part of the UK....its a UK wide deficit
+Sham TKD Indeed but as she runs the Scottish part of that economy that is the only part she is answerable for. And it is a shambles.
Ask her about her concern for the people in her own constituency. If it had happened we would be in deep shit.
SNP don’t speak for Scotland
How will she get the deficit down without uk money
Jim LePeu I guess they will go back to type, crossing the border cattle rustling in England
She will print her own 😁
Give control to Brussels and ask them to bail them out...
So Scotland relies entirely on English money. Heres me thinkg that we give billions each year to the british economy and only get about 40% of it back as it were....!! If we kept it all I suspectt hat we would be doing just fine on our own...! This is the only reason that english politicians want to stay united. They need the revenuse from Scotland to help bolster the pigs ear they are making of the economy...!!!!
Because we won't be handing 60% of the revenues gathered in Scotland over to Westminster..
wow when she isn't bullying and pointing the finger she actually hasn't got a clue what is going on. you can see it in her eyes that when it comes to talking about real issues she has not got a scooby. a very vile, dangerous woman for the people of scotland
We had a very vile and dangerous woman running Scotland before you know, her name was Margaret Thatcher !!!!
+Monkib That dangerous woman allowed people to buy their council houses including Nicola Sturgeon' parents, but guess what Nicola stopped that when she got in power. Its ok for her parents but no one elses. I'l also point out Nicola instead of buying Scottish steel for the Forth Bridge bought it from China, also wants to sell a Scottish airport also to Chinese. The reason being SNP bought it for £1 but was going to cost billions to upgrade I could go on but this subject is actually getting a bit boring.
They only have power because Labour and the Tories are so bad.
And now, in 2023, she's lost £600,000, bought a campervan, resigned and been arrested. If Scotland was independent with her in charge, we'd all be living in a massive cardboard box.
I would never vote for another referendum we can't afford to go alone we would suffer
Awe just stopit hen I'm cringing here
Scott Anderson.
Stop yer greetin' and hae a few Doch and Doris.
I love it when politicians start to stammer...
"I oppose whatever the government proposes.....Jimmy!"
You can see why Boris Johnson didn't want to be interviewed by Neil
Another lie... She DID say deficit, just listen again!
+Warriorking1963 She learned the art of lying well from Alex Salmond.
Ironically the SNP have been saved by the NO vote.
She’s going to bring Scotland to its knees
and when the military and the defence shipbuilding jobs move out of Scotland?
Apparently Scotland will keep the boys based there...that are manned by English soldiers, sailors and airmen.
@@MBO_Bama don’t think so somehow.
An independent Scotland would have had to come cap in hand to the UK had they taken their independence and begged to be taken back into the fold, SNP is a joke...
Scotland deficit is currently 10% of GDP, by far the highest in the EU ! EU are about to fine Spain and Portugal for allowing their budget deficit to exceed 3% of GDP. UK deficit is 6% of GDP, so obviously Scotland is heavily subsidised by the Union, in fact Scots receive £1500 per head more than English from central government...
Some of our exports leave from English ports and are not calculated in our GDP figures and there's £billions, these export figures are counted as English exports.
lmao there's always some conspiracy or inaccuracy in the statistics with indy supporters aren't there?
There is little hope of denting the faith position of British nationalist fanatics who desperately need to believe that Scotland is "Too wee! Too poor! Too stupid!" to be a normal nation, but it is worth repeating for the sake of any non-bigots reading this that GERS tells us NOTHING about the finances of independent Scotland. The 'deficit' so dubiously identified by GERS, to the extent that it is real at all, reflects the position with Scotland as part of the UK. Independence would change the picture completely.
Obvious as that fact is, it seems to be completely beyond the grasp of unionists. Driven by a rigid ideology which sees Scotland's inferiority as akin to something divinely ordained, they eagerly believe all manner of insane things. For example, to imagine that the 'deficit' identified by GERS relates to post-union circumstances, it is necessary to believe that Scotland would, not only continue to abide by the socially corrosive and economically destructive policies of the Westminster elite, but also that we would keep on paying for things like the House of Lords and Trident.
The reality, of course, is that Scotland's 'balance sheet' after independence would include none of this expenditure. And it would include substantial revenues which are quite deliberately not identified by GERS.
But, as I say, there's no point in telling any of this to the typical British nationalist. If the media shrills "£15bn BLACK HOLE!" that becomes their truth. They will never this. They will flatly refuse to ask even the most basic questions about the way GERS is sourced, calculated and presented. The similarities between British nationalism and religious fundamentalism are striking.
Monkib27
SNP predictions for North Sea Oil Revenue this year: £8bn
Actual profits: £80m
Your party's "economics" is laughable.
Keep on defending them. They're idiots and everyone laughs at them.
+HyperionNyx
Same as opec and UK's.
You make out somehow Scotland's economy is based on oil, how come we're still open for business then with only a slight difference of made up figures provided by HM treasury. By your estimates we should be starving naked and bare by now walking barefoot in a desert of thistle clad hills looking for caves to sleep in.
We must be the luckiest poorest country ever to survive a worldwide over supply and least demand for decades.
Haha Hahahah.
And You think we're daft ya dyed in the wool deluded post empire serf craving shitstirring dipshit.
For the Scottish people that are humble and understand politics. I feel so unbelievably sorry for you. We have banter with each other. Your always welcome south of the border
''It's mismanagement by Westminster.....''
''I'd solve it the same way Westminster does....''
She on drugs? 🤔
Scotland is like a moody teenage girl, whines about independence but then rings Daddy whenever she needs money
You are right agentdreyer2...…………...
agentdreyer2 not all of Scottish people agree with sturgy
Do you think we ALL vote SNP??
Please trying researching your facts before coming out with the usual quasi racist nonsense about Scotland re its economic viability. I know I'm wasting my time because your ignorance is entrenched.
In financial year 2017-18, oil and gas production in Scotland (including Scottish adjacent waters) is estimated to have been 73.7 million tonnes of oil equivalent (mtoe). Production in Scotland decreased by 1.7% compared to 2016-17, and accounted for 81 per cent of the UK total (down from 82 per cent in 2016-17).
Andrew Neil is brilliant.
She supports EU cunts, is she a muppet?
Even if he is, he points out some obvious basic economic facts she can't properly answer.
Andrew Neill is SHITE.!!!
+John Redmond Nope,just you and all these other fanny pads who don't even know their arse from a hole in the ground.
Andrew Neil is just another Unionist puppet in a long succession of puppets in this UK Punch n Judie show
“That’s why I said debt” rewind er no, you said deficit. What a complete embarrassment of a person.
As soon as that interview finished she flung herself off that bridge . But as usual she got that wrong too.
without england your nothing
@Celtic Revival / Adfywiad Celtaidd Except Hong Kong!! Lol
have you noticed how she can't move her head independently from her body....
The Sturgeons obsession with independence Scotland cannot afford to be independant. There going to be printing money to keep going
"Well you should be kind because they are sending you lots of money" hahaha