Peter Brown on Nostr: they desperately needed to keep the vast amount of revenues coming out of the north ...

they desperately needed to keep the vast amount of revenues coming out of the north Sea secret to maintain the fiction that Scotland was a poor country that couldn’t afford independence.

And they were largely successful. Even now there are still people who believe we are subsidised by London and not the other way round.

Hence Thatcher’s “spend it quick” policy to ensure there were no large capital sums sitting around drawing unwanted attention to themselves.