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Originally Posted by LondonRoad
You're making the rather large assumption that the SNP will be in Government when Scotland becomes independent. If the vote is yes then you may see their positions softening as their parties seek seats in the new Scottish parliament
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The SNP will be in charge when these issues will be negotiated. The Currency, along with NATO and the EU, will be their responsibility.
The other parties will have to be permanently spilt, you will not have UK Parties making concessions to Scotland to help their Scottish counterpart in Scottish elections. Remember that the UK parties will be seeking election for the British Parliament and the public opinion in rUK is not to enter a Currency Union and underwrite a Foreign country's banking sector.
The rest of the UK wants Scotland to stay but if it leaves they do not want it to have an 'à la carte' approach to the Union where it picks and chooses which parts of the Union it wants to keep and which it wants to discard of. The Yes campaign are promising a illusion of maintaining all the benefits of the Union without the drawbacks.
So rUK will agree to bail out Scottish Banks if they go under and will cede some monetary policy over to an Independent Scotland. The remainder of the United Kingdom will also
still subsidise the Scottish renewables industry but obviously Scotland will keep all the money from the Oil.