Cut the crap, get angry and end the union

GERS is unionist propaganda tool used to gaslight Scotland

Published in The National, August 16th, 2024, and in the 19th August edition of the Edinburgh Evening News.

Viceroy Murray claims GERS shows that Scotland benefits from the union. That’s because he’s fully on board with English Labour’s project to bleed Scotland dry in order to prop up the union’s rotten edifice. 

GERS is a unionist propaganda tool, devised in 1992 by then Secretary of State for Scotland, Ian Lang, for the sole purpose of keeping Scotland in the dark about its vast wealth and to deter it from breaking free. The UK conveniently dumps onto GERS the cost of its debt and spending outside Scotland, supposedly for Scotland’s ‘benefit’, which swells the expenditure side and makes Scotland look like a child that can’t subsist on its puny allowance. In reality, Scotland generates far more revenue than it spends, revenue that rushes into London’s insatiable maw. 

UK civil servant Gavin McCrone knew the truth about Scotland’s wealth. His 1975 report that said North Sea oil would give Scotland a “chronic surplus to a quite embarrassing degree and its currency would become the hardest in Europe.” It would also mean Scotland would choose to leave the UK to be free to use its wealth to benefit its people. So, the UK government classified the McCrone Report “top secret.” It only saw the light of day in 2005 after the Freedom of Information Act was passed.  

Did you ever wonder why there isn’t a GERS for England, Wales or Northern Ireland? It’s because the UK fears losing only Scotland, its cash cow. That’s why it continually gaslights us with the connivance of its Scottish satrap, the Scottish administration, and the subservient unionist stenographers who pretend they’re journalists.  

We need to tell the SNP administration to cut the crap, get angry at how we’re treated in this union and end it.