tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8212152.post-13278508180812796592008-07-25T17:51:00.000+01:002008-07-25T17:51:00.000+01:00What a delight the sturdy folk of Glasgow East have brought us!<BR/><BR/>On the matter of the oil, I recall a TV prog decades ago on which a spokesman for a then tiny SNP appeared, to claim that the oil was 'theirs'. He was roundly demolished by an expert in international law who pointed out that:-<BR/><BR/>1. The claim that the oil is Scots is based on projecting the boundary between England and Scotland along a line of latitude, ie parallel to the equator;<BR/><BR/>2. If the line were instead projected out to sea as an extension of the land border (ie in a north-easterly direction), most of the oil would fall into the English sector;<BR/><BR/>3. The convention internationally for projecting land borders out to sea is as in 2. above.<BR/><BR/>If my recall is accurate and the information was true, the case for the Scots to become an oil state collapses.<BR/><BR/>I'd love to see Alex Salmond's face when he eventually gets that advice himself. Could any international lawyer comment, please?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com