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Originally Posted by Damien
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. |
The SNP won't be negotiating on it's own. It will involve representatives of the the other parties as well as the wider Scottish civic society.