There's yer article killer

buT what curRENCy WOuLd you USe?

The only way the UK is remotely salvageable would be a move to proportional representation and a permanent end to single party rule, and that's never going to happen because "that's how Hitler got in!"

They say Labour can't win Westminster without Scotland, but equally Scotland can't win Westminster without England, and England only votes Labour when Labour lurches to the right. It's lose - lose. And while I agree that Boris is awful, he alone isn't a good reason to back indy. The true problem is that Boris is just a symptom, and Westminster and UK politics will continue to be awful long after he's gone.

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Writing off the question of currency is an idiotic take when experts predict our currency will be devalued 20%, that impacts quality of life, and health follows.

Don’t get the obsession with Westminster.

Education, health, justice, rural affairs, housing, environment, equal opportunities, consumer advocacy and advice, transport and taxation are all devolved powers.

The list of reserved powers has absolutely nothing in it that I care or about or is vote on.

comment by WorkPermitPending (U1067)
posted 6 minutes ago
buT what curRENCy WOuLd you USe?

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People get WAY too emotive about currency. Just a token.

I wonder how in fack Denmark population 5.2m has survived with its own currency within the EU and setting its own interest rates, currently 0.6% below the Euro bloc's 0% yet maintained a virtually constant exchange rate? Baffling.

comment by Silver (U6112)
posted 13 minutes ago
comment by WorkPermitPending (U1067)
posted 6 minutes ago
buT what curRENCy WOuLd you USe?

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People get WAY too emotive about currency. Just a token.

I wonder how in fack Denmark population 5.2m has survived with its own currency within the EU and setting its own interest rates, currently 0.6% below the Euro bloc's 0% yet maintained a virtually constant exchange rate? Baffling.
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This old chestniut. Scotland is not Denmark. Or Noway, Sweden or Iceland.
Those countries predate the EU, the current globalised world we live in and many other things.
For an independent Scotland to establish it as a prosperous nation would take a miracle.
The whole Indy argument was based on North Sea gas and oil reserves. That argument’s gone now, beyond the very short term.

who would people in Scotland vote for if they stopped voting for the SNP

Wouldn't be the Tories and right now it won't be Labour

The Greens?
Alba?
Lib Dems?

comment by aussiesheila (U22724)
posted 55 minutes ago
comment by Silver (U6112)
posted 13 minutes ago
comment by WorkPermitPending (U1067)
posted 6 minutes ago
buT what curRENCy WOuLd you USe?

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People get WAY too emotive about currency. Just a token.

I wonder how in fack Denmark population 5.2m has survived with its own currency within the EU and setting its own interest rates, currently 0.6% below the Euro bloc's 0% yet maintained a virtually constant exchange rate? Baffling.
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This old chestniut. Scotland is not Denmark. Or Noway, Sweden or Iceland.
Those countries predate the EU, the current globalised world we live in and many other things.
For an independent Scotland to establish it as a prosperous nation would take a miracle.
The whole Indy argument was based on North Sea gas and oil reserves. That argument’s gone now, beyond the very short term.
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Are you in Australia? Can you tell us what time it is there?

Also, are you a girl?

comment by Ghod#18 (U9390)
posted 43 minutes ago
who would people in Scotland vote for if they stopped voting for the SNP

Wouldn't be the Tories and right now it won't be Labour

The Greens?
Alba?
Lib Dems?
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Magnum?

comment by Dave The Jackal (U22179)
posted 1 hour, 2 minutes ago
comment by Ghod#18 (U9390)
posted 43 minutes ago
who would people in Scotland vote for if they stopped voting for the SNP

Wouldn't be the Tories and right now it won't be Labour

The Greens?
Alba?
Lib Dems?
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Magnum?
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Always vote Magnum

comment by aussiesheila (U22724)
posted 3 hours, 12 minutes ago
Absolute delusion.
Support for independence in Scotland is dropping and significantly below 50%.
If somehow they was another referendum it’s likely the Yes side would lose again given the current volatility in the world and the move away from fossil fuels.
And why the hell would an EU struggling want another drain on its previous resources by allowing a bankrupt independent Scotland to join?
Remind me again, what’s your currency going to be?
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Well that's me changed my mind. Thanks for asking all those important questions that us simple Scottish folk had never thought of before.

Na TMQ, I want to stay in this house that's burning down.
I don't care if the SNP have ten fire engines just around the corner, Nicola Sturgeon looks like Jimmy Crankie.

INDY ALL THE FEKN WAY

comment by FourThrees (U9258)
posted 2 hours, 53 minutes ago
INDY ALL THE FEKN WAY
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Leave means leave.