Where's Red Celt when you want a laugh!?

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Post by John_fi_Skye » Fri Aug 08, 2014 9:38 pm

Rum wrote:In 2011 Scotland had 8% of the UK's population. Significant but not a major loss in terms of markets. There's only so much haggis people will eat after all...
A currency union will eventually be agreed between an independent Scotland and the remainder of the UK to ensure fiscal and economic stability on both sides of the border, according to a government minister at the heart of the pro-union campaign.

The private admission comes amid increasing jitters at Westminster, after opinion polls showed an increase in support for independence despite the Conservatives, Labour and Liberal Democrats all arguing that Scotland could not keep the pound after a yes vote.

"Of course there would be a currency union," the minister told the Guardian in remarks that will serve as a major boost to the Scottish first minister, Alex Salmond, who accused the UK's three main political parties of "bluff, bluster and bullying" after they all rejected a currency union.

The minister, who would play a central role in the negotiations over the breakup of the UK if there were a yes vote, added: "There would be a highly complex set of negotiations after a yes vote, with many moving pieces. The UK wants to keep Trident nuclear weapons at Faslane and the Scottish government wants a currency union – you can see the outlines of a deal."

The frank statement, contrasting sharply with the public position of ministers, comes amid soul-searching on the pro-union side after a series of opinion polls showed Scottish voters do not believe the UK would refuse a currency union with an independent Scotland.



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Post by Clinton Huxley » Fri Aug 08, 2014 9:40 pm

That's an old story. I reckon currency union would have to be put to a referendum in rUK. And who knows the outcome of that?

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Post by klr » Fri Aug 08, 2014 9:51 pm

Clinton Huxley wrote:Best get stockpiling shells and beads in Scotland, just in case...
Or, if you're really desperate, some Euros ... :Jack:
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Post by Clinton Huxley » Fri Aug 08, 2014 9:53 pm

klr wrote:
Clinton Huxley wrote:Best get stockpiling shells and beads in Scotland, just in case...
Or, if you're really desperate, some Euros ... :Jack:
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Post by John_fi_Skye » Fri Aug 08, 2014 10:15 pm

Yes, it's an old story - about five months old - but it's nonetheless true. For a moment, indulge my fantasy: if there were a Yes vote (and I don't believe there's going to be) it would simply not be an issue. It makes sense from every angle, and the alternatives make less or none from all angles. So, in that much-hoped-for but impossibly unlikely event, it would simply happen.
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Post by Clinton Huxley » Fri Aug 08, 2014 10:23 pm

It is an option but it's not a done deal, like it is in Salmond's head. It is amazing that literally everything that the SNP want is, miraculously, also in the rUK's interests. It's as if the rest of the country has no interests or wants of its own

Still, I look forward to the SNP discovering an ancient scroll declaring Faslane to actually be part of England.

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Post by klr » Fri Aug 08, 2014 10:26 pm

Why are the SNP so desperate to have the vote now? Why not wait until some of the key sticking points have been resolved or at least clarified?

Oh right ... there are no anniversaries of famous Scottish victories over the Sassenachs during the next few years.
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Post by Clinton Huxley » Fri Aug 08, 2014 10:31 pm

They got in to power on a very low turn out, as I recall. They need to waste everyone's time with this divisive horseshit before they're voted out again.

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Post by JimC » Fri Aug 08, 2014 10:40 pm

The new unit of currency has to be the Scottish Sporran.

100 Haggis to the Sporran...
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Post by Svartalf » Sat Aug 09, 2014 3:56 am

Does Scotland have a proper mint? I can foresea a dreadfu' exchange rate, but a real currency, even if they have to produce it abroad.
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Post by Svartalf » Sat Aug 09, 2014 4:01 am

John_fi_Skye wrote:Yes, it's an old story - about five months old - but it's nonetheless true. For a moment, indulge my fantasy: if there were a Yes vote (and I don't believe there's going to be) it would simply not be an issue. It makes sense from every angle, and the alternatives make less or none from all angles. So, in that much-hoped-for but impossibly unlikely event, it would simply happen.
You forget how the bastards would just love to punish Scotland for its effrontery... Denying them the sterling is just one way to show spite...
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Post by John_fi_Skye » Sat Aug 09, 2014 7:47 am

Svartalf wrote:
John_fi_Skye wrote:Yes, it's an old story - about five months old - but it's nonetheless true. For a moment, indulge my fantasy: if there were a Yes vote (and I don't believe there's going to be) it would simply not be an issue. It makes sense from every angle, and the alternatives make less or none from all angles. So, in that much-hoped-for but impossibly unlikely event, it would simply happen.
You forget how the bastards would just love to punish Scotland for its effrontery... Denying them the sterling is just one way to show spite...
Ah, at last! A sensible post, in amongst all the .... what was the term? ..... horseshit.

Spite. Exactly.
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Post by John_fi_Skye » Sat Aug 09, 2014 7:48 am

JimC wrote:The new unit of currency has to be the Scottish Sporran.

100 Haggis to the Sporran...
:funny:

Like you have 100 dingoes to the billabong? :biggrin:
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Post by John_fi_Skye » Sat Aug 09, 2014 7:53 am

John_fi_Skye wrote:
JimC wrote:The new unit of currency has to be the Scottish Sporran.

100 Haggis to the Sporran...
:funny:

Like you have 100 dingoes to the billabong? :biggrin:

.....and five Sheilas to every Bruce? :shiver:
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Post by Clinton Huxley » Sat Aug 09, 2014 7:54 am

Svartalf wrote:Does Scotland have a proper mint?.
Plenty of humbugs.

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