Re: Will Scotland Leave the UK?
The yeSNP are panicking about that very subject. Sturgeon was on the radio first thing, insisting there shouldn't be a referendum because "nothing will change" for the remaining UK. She is either lying through her back teeth or else she really, truly doesn't understand what a currency union means.
Darling has now suggested that there should be a referendum in the rest of the UK and has suggested as an alternative that Unionist parties in Westminster might write 'no currency union' into their 2015 manifestos as a lesser means of attaining the same outcome.
Personally I think there is now likely to be some suggestion from Westminster that a referendum bill is being drafted. Thanks to Vince Cable that anonymous minister it is now the only way of burying the issue. Salmond and Sturgeon will have a very, very hard time convincing Scots voters that the polls across the UK, which are strongly anti-currency union, are just bluffing.
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