Every single hypothetical you name there Nomadking has not happened. There’s simply no rules to prevent such a situation, that doesn’t mean it’d be deemed acceptable for them to happen - or even that they would.
If macroeconomic levers are some kind of Scottish myth why is it considered important by the EU member states outside the Eurozone, including the UK until this year, to remain outside?
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1. Presenting the present level of national debt as indicative of economic mismanagement is plainly silly under the present circumstances.
2. “Every other country in the empire” is likewise a very silly statement, profoundly ahistorical, and rooted in the other great strand of Scottish exceptionalistic thinking ... the notion that Scotland is somehow a victim of an English empire, rather than the actual truth, that it was always an active and enthusiastic partner in the British empire.
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I don’t see how it’s particularly exceptional for people to believe that local decisions are better than foreign decisions. It’s exactly the same argument about decision making in London vs Brussels.
Scotland of course greatly benefited in the past, through slavery and trade links with colonies in the past. One only has to walk around Glasgow to see a city built upon this with street names reflective of this. That however doesn’t necessarily make the Union fit for the 21st century. It’s hardly a Union that has the consent of the people if you suggest they be held prisoner to it because of the 17th and 18th centuries.
Again not one for the doorstep campaign, I suspect.