Oh okay . Completely forgot about the 10 th amendment . Hypothetically , if all states went the way Maine did their electoral college , that would still give the states power , while also properly representing individuals voting , right ? <| sep |> that mean the North Sea will almost definitely never be as profitable as it was between the ' 80 s and 2014 ever again . Sure . Doesn ' t mean we ' ll be paupers , just a little less gravy . It is recovering somewhat of late . However , we do also hold a nonsensically large portion of the EUs renewable capacity . Tidal power generated off the western coast will eclipse the oil industry in the coming decades . Unfortunately the UK government has just cut the budget for these projects . It ' s not that we want to be super rich oil barons we just feel that Westminster doesn ' t have our best interests to heart , something that ' s provably true . Personally I feel that they are cutting the renewable investment because they feel we ' re about to leave , thus making it a total loss . That ' s our albatross at present we ' ll never see significant UK investment again unless the independence calls die . Beyond that , Scotland has a massive budget deficit , and many of its few major industries defence manufacturingshipbuilding , a significant chunk of its finance industry and a lot of its service industry are directly dependent on the UK , as are the overwhelming majority of exports generally . Where to begin . ? The budget deficit is unprecedented and caused by factors beyond our control , it ' s not the normal state of affairs and is largely down to a temporary situation faced by the UK as a whole . Brexit promises only worse . The industries you list aren ' t among our biggest commerce areas . Defence isn ' t particularly notable especially shipbuilding 8 over 30 years ? srsly ? and it ' s a lie that it ' s dependent on the UK . By population , gdp or by land mass , we build a disproportionately lower number of military resources than the rest of the UK . The begrudged scraps we get don ' t make up for this , regardless of how much publicity they get on state media . With saying trade is dependent on England that implies on independence it will be embargoed out of spite . That is hardly an proUK argument on purely emotional terms but it ' s hardly helped by rUKs impending Brexit economic doom . If anything it ' s a liability . Glasgow , Scotland ' s biggest city , is literally the poorest and most violent major city in the British Isles , and one of the poorest in the entirety of Western Europe . Less than 17 , 000 people in Scotland pay the highest rate of tax . Yes , it is . I could go into details on why photographs like images . vice . comimagesgalleriescrops 20160401 p h o t o g raphsofglasgowsslumsintel 529442 size 1000 . jpg ? resizeoutputquality 75 could be taken in Glasgow in 1980 , it looks more like Warsaw in the 40 s . Again , this is hardly an advertisement for the union . Since devolution we ' ve completely turned the place around . We want more . We ' re getting more . Get used to it , we ' re outa this sinking ship . David Cameron will go down in history as the man who killed the United Kingdom . May will be a footnote . it would have to join the EuroAlways a sign that someone knows nothing about the subject . The EU will never force a currency change on a nation it would be the end of the EU , Multidimensional Brexit . There exist official methods to kick this into the long grass indefinitely for good reason see Sweden , specifically the term participation in ERM II is voluntary for the noneuro area Member States . Forcing a currency change would be just about the most toxic suicidal thing they could ever do for the future of the EU . and have to engage in an austerity programme orders of magnitude more brutal than any under the Tories . PostBrexit Tories with no viable opposition ? You are in for a huge shock mate .