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Let me put that into context and look at what that would mean for the people of Scotland. We know that the 2013 revenue accounts for Scotland showed a black hole in the country’s finances of £4 billion—and that was before the dramatic slump in oil prices was taken into account.
That is not because we do not want to; maybe it is because the amount of money that we have to move around is in the thin column at the end of the accountant’s sheet of paper. We cannot move mountains if we do not have the fundamental tools to do that.