"tim...." wrote in message
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They would then be subject to fiscal control by Brussels - and do you
think that lot will be able to keep their grubby little hands off the oil
revenues.

Being under fiscal control does not mean "we take your money".

and as there is currently no common policy for oil reserves, being under
fiscal control would not invent one

I don't know why people think the Scots get the oil reserves in the first
place.
There are international treaties on how the coastal resources are allocated
and the Scots don't get as much of the oil fields as England does.