Scottish independence
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Like i said, selling the gold devalues the pound, i believe it was sold to buy Yen tradeables. Gives you an idea of what currencies will determine fiscal policy and interest rates in the future. Might not be the pound, especially if it's not underpinned by North Sea Oil.
Another thing is the west coast of Scotland. I've got really good friends from Islay off the west coast. Last time i met up i was getting told about their being a lot of oil and gas on the west coast as well.People in Islay tend to be well connected, so like i say, i kind of trust that judgement that it's possible more oil will be found around Arran and in the Firth of Clyde. Geological surveys have been done and BP were pretty sure there is stuff down their. So we'll see.
So far only 20 exploration wells have been drilled and the word is their is oil and gas all over the place up here. Faslane has really put that on the back burner. But if you think about 3,000 exploration wells in the North Sea versus 20 on the west coast their's a very high chance it's out their and the technology might just be able to get at it.
I know that somewhere between 30-35,000 jobs are gonna become available and various friends have all been rushing to go and get their certificates. So obviously things are happening.
In terms of politicians, well there are people who would make excellent politicians and probably never looked at it as a career path before. They've come from really good backgrounds in terms of education and like i said, have the personality to handle themselves as politicians. I just hope they noticed. Maybe when it's all finished it might be something they want to pursue.
But you would be amazed. People who i'd have down as being definite no voters come up and are turned and not because they read the white paper, but because they went straight to the economists talking about it everyday on Twitter.
For the first time, we've had enough time and like i said the main drivers are people working in things like I.T sector, developing systems in Abu Dhabi and places like that. Not dafties.
If anything it's the dafties on TV voting no who look incredibly stupid. Like the politician who got egged last week by his own security guard who ran off but was caught on film. Media reports it was Yes voters.
Latest one today seems to be about the supermarkets leaving and thats been completely laughed at.
Every time the lies come up, they get debunked very quickly and more people lose the trust.
Other one today i saw was the government lobbying other countries to speak out against independence and they have a whole department to make sure it's worded the right way. Russia. Can you believe that. At the same time they are dealing out sanctions to Russia, they are asking Putin to speak out.
Half the stuff you couldn't make up. Like the BBC, they get £200-250 million from Scotland via the license fee, so that gives you an idea of how impartial they are. When you know how the media works having been inside it, it doesn't come as a surprsie when i switch on the news for the first time in months and i'm thinking, "This is why i don't watch the news anymore." It's depressing and the level of scaremongering is phenomenal, and it's all scheduled in a very strange way.
I don't know if you saw the news last night, but goes along the lines of speak to one person in Dundee, who votes Yes and then go hit the old demographic in the borders who are obviously gonna be in a difficult position. They think their pensions are gonna disappear over night when they aren't. Besides the 1% who run the pension schemes all live in the south of England. But somehow they are mis-informed. Then it's over to the financila analyst who's ready to blow out his cheeks and be like, "Well, it's been a bad day on the stock market." Then it's cheery for a split secong with the royal baby, before jumping into the ISIS thing and a reporter who looks quite excited about what really is a bleak situation.
This is how you report the news you see and don't report the real news. If they wanted to debate it properly they would be talking about it for half an hour on the news, but soundbites are little chunks of information more easily remembered.