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on topic - hell yeah Deano will be up there, man when you look at the list though it is gonna be one exciting year in the 450 class, there is going to upwards of 7 or 8 swapping positions each night in my opinion.
I cannot wait for A1 - please ESPN get this sorted for 2013 !
90% of the oil will stay and has the largest oil resource in the EU
Massive energy exporter
Whisky trade 1.6bn in revenue for the UK in taxes
Fishing
Responsible for 28-30% of all computer technologies for the whole of the EU.
Textiles and Manufacturing is also very high on the list of overall UK exports.
Now the banks will be mentioned however, the RBS etc were all under the control of the Bank of England and the national debt will be divided rightly so by the population. Even so, you are still looking at a surplus.
I for one don't want to see it. As it will force the rest of the UK into a deep recession. However I do agree that Scotland should have more control over its own population as it has been subsidising for years the other 3 nations within the UK.
UK subsidies
Any lingering doubt that Scotland more than pays its way, or survives on subsidies, was dispelled by a new report published in October 2007. Whilst the Daily Mail, which by no stretch of the imagination could be described as a supporter of Scottish nationalism, devoted a whole page to the analysis of the report which was based on tax paid per capita as against spending, Northern Ireland received £4,212 more than it paid in tax, North East England £3,133, Wales £2,990, N.W. England £1732, South West England £978, West Midlands £931, East Midlands £185 and lastly Scotland £38. Only the South East corner produced a small surplus due to tax paid on the high wages within the city of London at this time (pre-Credit Crunch).
Analysis
It is no longer refuted that Scotland exports more per capita than the rest of the UK. In 1968 when I first discovered that Scotland was in surplus in relation to the rest of the UK, its exports could be broken down into whisky, meat, timber, fish, and of course tourism which is a huge hidden income. Those exports are supported by a population of only 5,000,000 as against 45,000,000 for the rest of the UK, quite a substantial advantage.
With the oil boom, Scotland's economy was transformed. Scottish oil has to date funded the Treasury with £300 billion, which has pushed Scotland up from 7th place in World Wealth rankings, had it been in control of its own resources, to 3rd place.
On 29 May 2008, Labour Chancellor Alistair Darling admitted in a back-handed way, that Scotland's oil revenue had been underwriting the UK's failure to balance its books for decades. There is still 30 years of oil supply left in the North Sea (some 150 million barrels) valued at 2008 prices at 1 trillion dollars. This excludes the new fields being brought into production in deeper waters west of Shetland. Which are coming online now as we speak and have the potential to extend that another 30 years.
Meantime whisky exports, which I listed in 1968 as one of Scotland's top assets, have risen at a phenomenal rate. For example, whisky exports to China amounted to £1 million in 2000/2001, by 2007 they had risen to £70 million. They have continued to rise, although I don't have more recent statistics.
On the economies of Independence, Scotland has also 18 times its requirements in North Sea gas, which on current trading is more expensive than oil. The country exports 24% of its surplus electricity south of the Border, with much of the back-up by Hydro Electric unused.
Even if nuclear is excluded, the future looks bright, the new Glen Doe hydro station on Loch Ness which was opened by Scotland's First Minister last year can produce enough electricity for 240,000 homes. Further projects down the Loch which have now reached the planning stage will increase this to over 1,000,000 homes. Wind and wave energy will also contribute significantly in the future.
All of the above is never taken into account by the UK parliament as they fear Scottish Independence as it will be costly for all parties involved with Scotland having any kind of financially viable way back out of the hole.
work in the oil and gas/energy sector myself so we will see how it pans out regards resource and distribution - that's my take from the inside anyway. should prob leave politics out of it and possibly a knee jerk reaction on my part as the whole saga pisses me off royally but hey ho.
Politics isn't my thing either but if they follow EU law on boundaries etc then the UK as a whole is going to lose a lot of revenue.
I was reading on the plane the other day about the amount of tax taken vs the amount given back and it was 9.8% vs 9.4%. So a surplus of 0.4%. That does not include the revenue from Oil/Gas, energy, whisky, textiles, Computer related industry or manufacturing being given to the Scots so to speak. If they get all their revenues to themselves it puts them in the top 3 in the world for monies earned vs population. They do cost more in terms of state money but they do outperform everywhere in the uk bar London and the SE.
Those kind of numbers speak for themselves in my opinion. I hope it doesn't happen though.
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My Dad was an Irish immigrant, and is buried here in Canada, that the way it roles. When Dean gets his US citizenship, he can be American.
It would never happen, but what if UK and Canada went to war. The UK sandbagged at the Olympics somewhat I would say, Scotland, Ireland, England should have three separate countries.
Anyway, I don't know how we got here from bikes. I'm sure the parts will be there for him, but will people like Mitch and Bones? Team is going to have growing pains. I think Dean will be 7th in SX next year, and a title threat outdoors. Bigger boy like him should do better on the starts on the big bikes, but the start is everything in SX, too much if you ask me. He had better be nailing them.
I compare him to Barcia, like others, but wrongly so right now. Barcia is better indoors, Deano is great under the sun.
Plenty of bikes? Yes.
Access to advice and tech support? Yes.
Wide-open access to parts and such? Maybe not so much.
I hear similar for the RCH squad. One factory bike for their top guy, one that's more production-based for their second guy, and not exactly wide-open access to the parts cage.
Personally I think they see where Westminster has headed being completely out of touch for the peoples needs and the future of getting involved in a lot that we shouldn't be. Our country like the US is financially on it's knees and priorities of fixing what's needed at home should be first and not chasing oil rich countries making up issues on weapons of mass destruction etc etc.
We all have a duty to help each other but there are a lot of countries that pose a bigger threat to humanity than Iraq/Afghanistan has or ever will and yet we don't stop them. Why? No natural resources that we need.
However if he get injured again this year, he might be trapped in the 'low-confidence-zone' and never get out of it (and only be a top 10 guy instead of a championship contendor guy)
I'm looking forward to seeing how Dean does on the JWR Kawi!
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I'm a KTM and JS7 fan, but I did make the big drive to TO this year, and Brayton's bike seemed magic, bet he will miss it.
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