I assume that remaining supporters of Scottish independence are today's "hurricane force Gaels".
No, of course an independent Scotland could not keep the pound, at least not in a currency union with the United Kingdom. What on earth could possibly have made anyone think that that might have been agreeable to the United Kingdom?
Once one of the great intellectual and industrial powerhouses of the world, Scotland has been turned by devolution, and especially by the rise of Alex Salmond, into an astonishingly insular place, where it is as if the Great National Liberator and President-for-Life were already in office. His utterances are treated not merely as the laws of the land, but as if they were the Laws of Physics, no matter how obviously absurd they are to everyone else on earth.
Panama? Seriously, Panama? Does that not resonate at all? Nicola Sturgeon can be forgiven for knowing nothing. But her boss cannot. This is the day when the Second Darien Scheme collapsed. Mercifully before it could become the Second Darien Disaster.
The man who says what everyone else thinks. Long may you reign.
ReplyDeleteThis was always crazy. A Scotalnd without its own currency would not be in control of its own economic policy. They might have even less independence than they have now, so what would be the point?
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