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Originally Posted by 1andrew1
In fairness to JFMan, there's plenty of Brexiters on here who seem to believe that economists and other experts are not to be trusted as they never get it right and Government figures that show how worse off we will be post Brexit are calculated by remainer civil servants. So perhaps JF Man has been made equally suspicious of those who compile the GERS figures being unionists.
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These aren’t economists though, and GERS isn’t a forecast. It is a statistical exercise, based on real current income and expenditure, which separatists used to love when oil cost a fortune and huge quantities of it were coming ashore because it made Scotland look very rich. Only now that the oil boom is coming to an end do they find it so inconvenient, and something to be called into question and brushed under the carpet.