Originally posted by RobtardThat would mean moving their currency dependence from the bank of England to the bank of Europe.
I'd assume the Euro, but maybe they can invent a "Scottish Pound" later on down.ps Aren't you supposed to capitalize "Jocks"?
Originally posted by jaden_2.0If they're not in the union, they won't get to use the pound. This was the focal point of the Scottish referendum.
Default on the pound?
The social challenges facing Scotland, not to mention its economic ones, are often underestimated by outsiders who perhaps like the idea of a movement which manifests rejection of the Conservative government in Westminster.
As a Scot myself I've yet to find a reason to support the SNP - which in no way requires one to have given any time to weighing up the question of independence - that doesn't at its core rest on the assumption that English people are evil and are responsible for the woes of Scottish communities.
Originally posted by Robtard
Scottish independence should be 100% up to the Scots.How I feel about Puerto Rico and Guam becoming states, it needs to happen, but it should be up to them voting.
There is a problem here in who exactly counts as a 'Scot' for these purposes. In the last vote it didn't matter where in the UK one was born if one was resident in Scotland then one had a vote. This however might be too limited...
It seems to me when breaking up a country, which the United Kingdom is, everyone should have a say in that- not just those who want to walk off with a particular part of it. After all the folks of Cornwall, Liverpool and Belfast have all contributed (monetarily and socially) to the life of the nation in Scotland. Why should people be told they are now longer allowed in one part of the house they built just because some folk who frequent that place more decide to wall up?
Originally posted by Blakemore
If they're not in the union, they won't get to use the pound. This was the focal point of the Scottish referendum.
The £ is a fully tradeable international currency. Literally any country in the world can use it if they choose to or peg their currency to it. Many former British Empire countries did use it for a long time after becoming independent. Examples. Australia became independent in 1942 and used the £ for another 24 years.
Originally posted by Grand-Moff-Gav
There is a problem here in who exactly counts as a 'Scot' for these purposes. In the last vote it didn't matter where in the UK one was born if one was resident in Scotland then one had a vote. This however might be too limited...It seems to me when breaking up a country, which the United Kingdom is, everyone should have a say in that- not just those who want to walk off with a particular part of it. After all the folks of Cornwall, Liverpool and Belfast have all contributed (monetarily and socially) to the life of the nation in Scotland. Why should people be told they are now longer allowed in one part of the house they built just because some folk who frequent that place more decide to wall up?
I hope they do let the rest of the UK vote on it. Independence would be 100% guaranteed if they did.
Originally posted by jaden_2.0If we're to use that as an example, (let's say Scotland can do that) what then after 24 years, Scottish dollar? Scottish Euro? How about the Punt?
The £ is a fully tradeable international currency. Literally any country in the world can use it if they choose to or peg their currency to it. Many former British Empire countries did use it for a long time after becoming independent. Examples. Australia became independent in 1942 and used the £ for another 24 years.
Originally posted by Robtard
That's interesting. I had figured it'd have the opposite effect.
The amusing argument is that the Scots want independence because they hate the English when the reality is that the English are generally far more xenophobic than the Scots including against their own supposed countrymen. The continuing narrative from the dominant media in Britain is that Scotland is a drag on the UK economy and that the English are constantly subsidising Scotland because the Scottish government chooses to fund things like free prescriptions where as the UK government choose to spend their money on other things like funnelling billions upon billions in contracts to their friends and relatives to deliver absolutely nothing. Example. They spent £37,000,000,000 on a test and trace system that completely failed. They awarded a PPE contract to a friend of a minister via text messages who had zero experience in acquiring PPE. They currently have £8,000,000,000 of utterly useless PPE sitting rotting in storage because it was deemed not suitable for use in the NHS.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/12/17/world/europe/britain-covid-contracts.html