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Originally Posted by Mr K
Why is it ludicrous? Same value at the end of the day, the name is irrelevant. If Scotland had the Euro since.2016, it would be much better off than the rest of the UK.
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I doubt introducing currency exchange into the near £50 billion of goods and services Scottish companies sell to English customers each year would have done much to make us better off. Nor do I think many people having to visit a bureau de change before going shopping in Newcastle or Carlisle, or visiting family in Manchester or London, would think themselves better off either.
And the major deficit reduction programme Scotland would have to implement as a Euro member ... well that might pinch a bit too. £8 billion less spending per year in a country addicted to welfare freebies like prescriptions and nationwide pensioner bus passes, and a disproportionately high number of serious welfare cases compared to England, would make the SNP’s support base in the favelas of Glasgow and Dundee somewhat restless.