>>>Donald managed to stick his sizeable foot in his mouth by congratulating the scots on voting to leave. The scots having just voted not to leave but being dragged out by English votes. Meanwhile I shall now pursue my right to an Irish passport.
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>>>If the Scots left the UK. there would never be another labor government in power there. All in all a good thing, I think. Without England, the Scots would be broke anyway. Maybe the EU will take care of them instead....
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>>Scotland is not a great economic power, but they do have a lot of oil and as shown in Norway, you can earn a lot of money there.
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>While having oil is better than not, reliance on a single commodity is bad. Recent slumps in oil prices - from what I read - have created a situation in Norway that the expectations based on promises (pensions,welfare state) given previously on presumption of always high oil prices are difficult to fulfill.

As was released in the press rwo years ago, Norways has such a surpluss in reserve, that virtually every norwegian is a miljonaire (in euros) already. They will have absolutely not probem to deal with temporary setbacks.

Walter,