ErnstRemarx wrote:Welcome back PV, very nice to see you again.
As predicted, and predictably, I see Scottish business chiefs have come out against a 'yes' vote. From their viewpoint, it makes little sense, and I sympathise with their reasoning. I note that in both the Graun and the Torygraph, the response from 'yes' advocates is to refuse to listen and to steadfastly insist that independence makes sense when all the data points to the exact opposite.
No-one denies the right of Scots to become independent and to forge their own path. That's not the point, and to continue to insist that Scots have the right misses the point by a country mile. It's whether it's actually sensible for Scotland to do so. RR2's first link is an excellent article that knocks lumps out of Salmond's assertions about independence and points out, sweetly, that Salmond can have as many plans in his back pocket as he wishes regarding the currency. They all though require a monumental leap of faith and an adherence to the belief that rUK will go along with the SNP and that business and money markets will be benign and act in fashion of a kindly uncle.
Were I a Scot, that sort of thinking have see me packing my bags, scanning the jobs columns and putting the homestead on the market toot sweet.
Hello!
I've been thinking about the Scottish currency thing for a while now. It seems to me (in an over-simplistic fashion) that Alex Salmond is saying that he would keep the
word "pound" but its actual future definition is as yet unclear. A bit like saying that he'll keep the word "platypus" but which, in future, could be used as a label for, say, an armchair. Or, indeed, anything else as circumstances dictate.
Edited
Alex not
Alec Salmond (a fact which I know perfectly well but, for some reason, often ends up incorrectly typed by me).