Dear All
Scotland’s ‘jolly fat man’ Alex Salmond
said that Scotland was on the cusp of a second Oil boom.
Bullshit!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The only ‘Oil’ that is booming is the hate
that lubricates the Nationalist machine as it creaks under the pressure of
their failed campaign to win, truly that is the second ‘Oil boom’ in Scotland.
Alex Salmond's bizarre claim of nirvana
riches, and milk and honey for all is a pipe dream.
Now the head of the UK's independent
economic forecaster Robert Chote, head of the Office for Budget Responsibility
has called this nonsense into question.
The SNP leadership of Salmond and Sturgeon
think that because there is oil, people will believe we are like Saudi Arabia
or other Arab state, we aren’t.
There is money being out into the North Sea
fields, it is record investment but it is all about continuity of production to
stabilise production and arrest long-term decline.
Maintenance!
Robert Chote was at Holyrood to give his
evidence to Holyrood's finance committee.
The SNP version of riches doesn’t match the
OBR's latest forecasts, SNP say second Oil boom; the OBR says that it is
nothing of the kind.
SNP ministers have been hyping up the
figures to try and con people, they say the forecasts of others are unduly
pessimistic.
On what evidence do they base this on, the
money going into maintenance!
Chote’s intervention firmly puts pressure
on the Scottish Government to update its own estimates for North Sea tax
revenues something they are reluctant to do.
They rammed the figures up, but like the Grand
Old Duke of York, once they went up the hill, they will now have to be marched
back down.
Battling for the SNP was Jamie Hepburn
formerly of Glasgow University SRC, this body was irrelevant for the most part
at the university; it was filled with party hacks engaging in student politics.
He challenging the OBR's figures and using
the old SNP mantra of grudge, grievance and malcontent accused the forecaster
of failing to take into account oil companies' multi-billion-pound investment
in North Sea facilities.
See what I mean about a real lack of talent
in the SNP!
Chote easily dismissed the criticism.
He told MSPs:
"If you were to come down from Mars
and look at the path of oil production over the last few years you would see
it's a pretty straight downward line. Therefore, I suspect that the puzzled
Martian would look at our expectation that oil production is now going to go
flat and say 'well why on earth are you expecting this decline that we've seen
over the last decade or so not continuing?'. The reason for that is the
increase in investment."
Hepburn isn’t from Mars but using the analogy
is a substitute for Chote getting out a paper and crayons and getting Hepburn
to draw it out.
The OBR has cut its oil revenue forecasts by
nearly £3billion between now and 2018/19, 2016/17, the OBR predict revenues of
£3.2billion.
The SNP has doubled that figure, well, how
is that possible?
It is quite simple, you take the figure and
multiple it y two and add on about an
extra half a billion pounds, that way, people might miss out on the fact you
just doubled!
Con!!!!!!!!
The second ‘Oil boom’ has been used by the
Scottish more than a year and is repeatedly used by the SNP to argue for an
independent Scotland.
The carrot of better public services and a
more generous welfare system than the UK doesn’t exist, not even in the minds
of the SNP leadership you can’t have Nordic welfare without Nordic tax.
Scottish Conservative finance spokesman
Gavin Brown said:
"For months now the First Minister has
claimed that the OBR failed to take into account the investment being made by
the industry. Now the OBR has given a direct response to this, showing that absolutely
not to be the case. The Scottish Government promised a month ago to release
updated oil figures within a matter of weeks. We are still waiting for these,
and it's imperative that they are published as soon as possible."
Is this the bit where the SNP take 15% or
20% off their figures?
Who knows, whatever the figure, we can
possibly assume it will be made up as well.
In looking at indy, you should look at
different sources of information, third party to make your mind up, Chote's
comments echoed a report last month by the Glasgow University-based CPPR think
tank.
They said Salmond’s second oil boom claim
was "not readily supported by the evidence".
In other words, it could be argued they are
saying Salmond is talking shite!
Laughingly, it is interesting to see how
the SNP are failing apart as their credibility is shredded completely as each
day lie upon lie is dismantled by independent people with no axe to grind.
So, choice time, do you believe Alex
Salmond and unpopular Nicola Sturgeon, or do you believe independents like
Robert Chote and Glasgow University based CPPR think tank?
One thing to bear in mind, no one has ever caught,
Robert Chote and Glasgow University based CPPR think tank out in a lie!
Sadly the same can’t be said for Scotland’s
‘jolly fatman’ Alex Salmond and Scotland’s unpopular Deputy First Minster
Nicola Sturgeon.
Finally, were do the Nationalists go to fill
up on hate that drives the Scottish National Party machine?
Is that why they think they are on the cusp of a second oil boom?
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow
University
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