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I am sure that there are pros and cons to Scotland breaking off. It's very easy to discuss the pros, but I wonder if anyone is looking at the cons.
It's easy to say "We get to keep our own oil revenues" but that's more of a sound bite and far from the truth. The oil might belong to Scotland, but I'm guessing the biggest company drilling that oil is BP - a British Company. I am also guessing the majority of the oil companies drilling that oil is also British. So in the end very little is going to change - the oil is still drilled by the same companies and the oil will still be distributed the same way. Scotland would be sure to gain from this, but I don't believe it would be nearly as much as people would think.
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