Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr Angry
Whatever way you slice it contrary to your assertion Jersey is in a formal currency union with the UK.
Legal tender is largely an irrelevance in the modern age with so many (non cash) means of payment. |
I suspect the SNP has greater aspirations for the economy of an independent Scotland than would be done justice by comparisons with any of the Crown dependencies.
And those same differences in size and scope are the ones being held up by the Treasury and all the men who aspire to run it, as reasons not to enter a currency union with an independent Scotland.
I wonder which minister had dinner with a Grauniad hack in his diary for last night. Whoever it was had better accidentally spill a bottle of ink over the page before he's unmasked - I suspect a meeting without biscuits is in the offing.