snp consider withdrawing mps from Westminster parliament

And as you have so often shown, you know SFA about GERS!!!

Reality passed you by long ago. Your lack of understanding shines through yet again. The only part of GERS that is down to ScotGov relates to devolved matters, and they have to balance the books. A financial penalty would be imposed if they overspent.
The rest of GERS relates to retained matters and those figures are down to the UK Government. Much of the statistics provided are guesswork. No details are available  for the nations and  English regions because, basically, they don't break the figures down to that level.

Scotland provides most of the UKs energy requirements - wind, hydro and other renewables. Not forgetting oil & gas. Yet we pay the highest bills.
Scotland has more water than any other UK country (indeed they say thee is more water in Loch Ness than is available in England). They will probably try to do a Welsh water robbery: remember the reaction to the drowning of the village of Capel Celyn in order to provide water for Liverpool? Hopefully, there will be a reaction in Scotland if yet another attempt to steal our resources is made.  I really could go on. But, you can get the gist of what I am saying.

England needs Scotland. If that was not the case why the hell did the UK Government fight tooth & nail to keep us imprisoned.

However much the gullible believe in GERS, and try to perpetuate the myth that England subsidises Scotland, the fact is that that is not the case.

Finally, even if there was a grain of truth surrounding Westminster's figures, the fact is that the exercise in no way reflects how an Independent Scotland would operate and succeed. In other words, it reflects how an imprisoned Scotland is, and always has been, treated since 1707!

The Scotch will never vote for independence. Even if they ever get as far as another Indyref, once in the privacy of the voting booth all the romanticism and Braveheart braggadocio will evaporate and, just like last time, pragmatism will trump emotion.

Unfortunately.

That’s simply not true. The phenomenon of Scottish fiscal dependency is relatively new. Throughout the 19th and for the much of the 20th century, Scotland contributed more than its fair share to the industrialised UK economy and to the Treaury’s coffers.. The problem is that the world in which Scotland was able to thrive no longer exists and the post-industrial world that we now live in and into which a newly independent Scotland would emerge is not one for which Scotland appears to be well placed to take advantage of and thrive in. If it were then it would already be doing so.

That is just embarrassing self-pitying bluster almost all of which, whether true or not, has nothing to do with GERS. All that GERS does is report on Scotland’s fiscal performance in a given year i.e. how much the Scottish economy raised in revenue in that period, how much public expenditure Scotland enjoyed over that same period and therefore, by deducting one from the other, how much Scotland relied upon England to prop it up.

It has nothing to do with whether or not ScotGov’s remit is only in devolved matters, or whether or not ScotGov has to balance the books, or whether or not Scotland provides most of the UK’s energy requirements yet pays the highest energy bills, or whether or not Scotland has more water than the rest of the UK, or whether or not you could go on and provide more irrelevant, suspect and highly-selective bluster.

England does not need Scotland and Scotland does not need England. Both would survive without the other. However, as GERS helps to demonstrate and for as long as the fiscal deficit remains the norm, Scotland would be worse off without England whereas England would be better off without Scotland.

Your final paragraph is really the only one that contains anything remotely relevant, although even that is hard to spot as it is wrapped up in your usual self-pitying and self-deceiving nonsense. You are correct to say that GERS does not reflect how an independent Scotland would operate and succeed; it is not designed to do so therefore it would be strange to claim that it did. However, far from showing how an Independent Scotland might succeed, it throws the question of whether an independent Scotland could succeed (if success is measured in economic and fiscal terms and if success means doing discernibly better outside of the UK than within it) into serious doubt. What it does tell us is how big Scotland’s notional fiscal deficit is at present and therefore how big an actual fiscal gap the government of a newly independent Scotland would immediately have to close - and keep closed, year after year, on an ongoing basis. Given the scale of that gap that would either result in unbearably high tax hikes or brutally diminished public services - or, more likely, a mixture of the two. And that is only to cover the current fiscal gap, of course. There would also be the inevitable establishment costs and the detrimental knock on financial consequences of independence and of operating a high tax/low amenities economy to address as well, putting further pressure on our fiscal situation and leading to even more tax hikes or public service cuts, which would further depress our economy and therefore result in yet another wave of tax hikes and service cuts, and so on and so on until the whole initial shock of the harm that we had inflicted upon ourselves by going it alone finally bottomed out. The inevitable implications of all of this would be hyper-austerity and decades of unbearable and unnecessary hardship, blighting the lives of several generations of Scots until the fall-out dust of independence finally settled - and for what? In all probability we would find ourselves no better off, and probably worse off, than we would have been if we had just stayed in the UK and avoided all of those bleak decades and lost generations in the first place. However, so long as it satisfies the cravings of the thinly veiled anti-English bigots amongst us then all of that would be a price worth paying, wouldn’t it?