[Scotland's Oil][2nd February 1976]

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We should not be concerned with the moral aspect of the possible independence of the inhabitants of Scotland from the power of the inhabitants of the United Kingdom (even if we do have to be pedantic about our terms). That is a matter so fraught with complexities of sentiment and contradictions of logic that the most honest among us, after a few minutes' serious discussion or thought on the subject, tend to be reduced to a state of total speechlessness. But there is still the slippery question of 'Scotland's Oil' – and what England (and Wales, and Scotland, and the United Kingdom) expects, and ought to expect. That is a question of morals – of moral rights, or expectations – above all.

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