THE OIL FACTOR
Whose oil is it anyway?
It has long been the argument of Scottish nationalists that Westminster has hijacked Scotland's most precious resource for its own purposes.
An independent Scotland would copy Norway in setting up an oil fund to manage North Sea-generated revenue. Referring to oil, the finance secretary, John Swinney, has said: "There is no doubt that as part of the UK we have lost out on the very real benefits that an independent country could have secured.