From: Alan Cairns 

On Sun, 12 Mar 2000 16:05:01 -0800, Randall Parker  wrote:

>In , the sagacious tim.hawkins{at}loot.com Tim Hawkins
perspicated:
>> After we scots get back a lot of the tax income generated by oil and gas
>> extraction in the 70's and 80's.
>
>Lets go further back into history and have the Royal Navy not guard the North
Sea at all for the last 100-200 years. Then you can watch the Nazis or some
Nordic political power pump all the oil while you sit back and watch
helplessly.
>
>
Why do you think Scots are incapable of running their country as well as,
say, the Danes or Norwegians? Come to that, the Irish are doing pretty well
just now.


Alan
alancairns{at}dccnet.com

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