Will Scotland Leave the UK?

[Mr Pharmacist]

What we'll hear next is "We'll do another deal. You let us keep the £ and we'll bin independence"

[Sirius]

Originally Posted by Jimi

I think we ALL know who the real jokers are,don't we.

Is that a cheap version of the mail

[dilli-theclaw]

Originally Posted by Mr Pharmacist

What we'll hear next is "We'll do another deal. You let us keep the £ and we'll bin independence"

Reminds me of Chemical Ali

[Mr Angry]

Do you mean "Comical Ali" Muhammed Saeed al-Saha ?

[dilli-theclaw]

Originally Posted by Jimi

I think we ALL know who the real jokers are,don't we.

That we can certainly agree on!

Originally Posted by Top banana

We certainly do Jimi! Funny that the GOVERNMENT say different to that paper. Wonder which one is telling the truth.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotlan...itics-26477209

The Nats had better hope its the government. Because if it's "the minister", the Pound comes with some nuclear warhead-shaped strings attached.

Alec will get lynched if the hardcore seps start to believe he'll do a deal to keep Trident on the Clyde.

[Mr Angry]

Originally Posted by Chris

The Nats had better hope its the government. Because if it's "the minister", the Pound comes with some nuclear warhead-shaped strings attached.

Alec will get lynched if the hardcore seps start to believe he'll do a deal to keep Trident on the Clyde.

He's denying (no surprise there) there's any deal to be done over the nukes.

[Sirius]

Maybe the 3 leaders of the main political party's in Westminster should sign a joint document legally stating that none of them will allow Scotland to share the pound IF there was a yes vote.

Originally Posted by Mr Angry

He's denying (no surprise there) there's any deal to be done over the nukes.

I'd expect nothing less. Still, it's instructive that the SNP are prepared to accept precisely half of what "the minister" said, namely the half that they like, while rejecting the half they don't like. If, as they claim, the minister revealed the UK Gov's true policy, then they had better start coming to terms with the full details of that policy.

If there is a Yes vote the negotiations are going to be horrible. The SNP still don't realise that the UK basically holds all the cards, as well as the sovereignty, and that ultimately independence will look the way the UK decides it will look, and not the way the SNP would like it to look.

[Mr Angry]

Originally Posted by Chris

If there is a Yes vote the negotiations are going to be horrible.

And then some.

The Government should pass a law that states any sharing of Sterling will require a referendum. Salmond will have a job trying to explain how Sterling will be shared then.

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.

[Derek]

I've also noticed they've been ignoring the whole 'Keep Trident in exchange for keeping the Pound' part of the quote from the mysterious minister.

[Osem]

Originally Posted by Damien

The Government should pass a law that states any sharing of Sterling will require a referendum. Salmond will have a job trying to explain how Sterling will be shared then.

Can't do that it'd be bullying. Bullying is, after all, anything which doesn't suit Salmond's Tartan Twits.

Clearly they believe only the Scots deserve a say in this matter.

I would like to see Salmond's attempt to explain why a referendum on a Currency Union is unfair certainly.