Could a free Scotland manage economically?
For example, look at the sea areas controlled by these three:
Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZ) & Fisheries Protection Zones (FPZ), Iceland and Norway (Jan Mayen & Svalbard are Norwegian) Source: Bates |
Scottish Sea Areas (from Scotland’s Marine Atlas) |
Save for a couple of loopholes, there is a vast contiguous sea area under the control of the “SIN” countries.
Indeed, if Scotland is to join with anyone, Norway would be far better than the corrupt, undemocratic economic shambles of the EU. Their population sizes are similar (c. five million) but Scotland clearly has a lot to learn from the Norwegians: GDP per capita c. $40k for the former, c. $100k for the latter (and a big sovereign wealth fund that will provide financial security for the foreseeable future). Further, Norway has claims to the Arctic shelf that could result in still more oil and gas:
Arctic territorial claims and potential for oil and gas (Source: The Economist, 16 June 2012) |
I’m not suggesting that Scotland would roll up to the banquest with knife and fork to eat Norway’s pie; I’m saying that the three countries might have a synergy based not only on geographical position but on their potential for joint economic and technological development.
For example, one reason Norway is so prosperous is that she can sell a lot of her oil abroad, since most of the country’s domestic electricity comes from hydroelectric installations. Similarly, Scotland has 85% of the UK’s hydroelectric resources and has great potential for other renewables (she provided 36% of the UK’s renewables output in 2012). Some of the hydro power is used for aluminium smelting – just as Iceland uses geothermal energy for the same purpose.
Then there is the shared expertise of Norway and Scotland in shipbuilding and marine engineering.
And Scotland has fishing, tourism, brewing, the arts…
What if Scotland picked up the Treasury’s gauntlet, dropped the British pound and floated its own currency to protect and develop its industries, maybe with some initial financial/investment support from her neighbours to the north-east?
Maybe independence, assisted by selective cooperation, is not such a romantic pipe-dream, after all.
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Not unless Britain turns over the North Sea oil fields to Scotland. Without those oil fields they would wither away and die.
No, Oil is gone and the SNP are Europhile Socialist republicans, leaving the UK means dumping the Monarchy and sailing into a world where the majority of the people live in cities and the majority of the land producing food is owned by Royalist Anglophile Scottish landlords, and not enough is grown anyway to feed the population. Burns, Tourists tax’s and tariffs just will not pay for dreams which grow ever bigger, but the taxes will driving out industry and forcing the nation to split further, Scotland was once just Dalraida or in this case will become Glasgow/Edinburgh – I wonder if the rest will adopt Pictland.