The Blatant lies the Scots have been told for decades by UK Governments

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The Blatant lies the Scots have been told for decades by UK Governments

A Top secret Whitehall dossier which was written over 30 years ago has revealed that Government ministers at the time were extremely concerned about loosing the resources of Oil and Gas from the North sea if Scotland managed to achieve Independence.

So certain information including this Dossier was kept Top Secret at the time to deny the Nationalist movement any fuel for Independence.

The paper was recently revealed and obtained by the Scottish National Party under freedom of information legislation.

It was written by a leading government economist in 1974, it sets out how oil would have given Scotland one of the strongest currencies and economies in Europe.
The report by Professor Gavin McCrone also stated that Scotland would have had "embarrassingly" large tax surpluses.

The report also shows how officials advising ministers about how to take "the wind out of the SNP sails".
Kenny MacAskill, of the Scottish National Party, said the report was proof of over 30 years of official lies, cover-ups and betrayal.

He added that it showed how much Scotland would have flourished from the benefit of their natural resource under Independence.

He said that in the 34 years since the report, Scotland has suffered low economic growth and manufacturing decline while at the same time oil wealth had "transformed" Canadian provinces and Arabian shiekdoms.

"Some have chosen when they've discovered oil to make the desert bloom and the tragedy was that in Scotland, the UK Government has created an industrial desert,”

Mr. MacAskill insisted that, with prices rising rapidly, oil was now "on the agenda" and he claimed an independent Scotland "would never be richer".

He added: "I would first of all like to have an apology from the UK Government for blatantly lying and deceiving the Scottish people.

"This is a fundamental lie that the people of Scotland have been spun for 30 years - that we were too wee, we couldn't do it, that the oil was going to run out - when they knew along that Scotland was sitting on a bountiful resource that would have transformed our economy and the lives of the Scottish people for the better."

However Scottish Secretary Alistair Darling has dismissed the document.

He responded by saying: "This is typical, looking back to the past. This document is over 30 years old.

Well Mr. Darling that’s alright then!! you just carry on patting the Scots on the head saying ‘we subsidize you ‘and every now and then threaten them that the Barnet formula is unfair and will have to come to an end.