Tag: scotland
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a-Fisking we shall go: Jonathan Stanley in Think Scotland
Sometimes an article so boneheadedly wrong appears one has to take an hour or so to see if its a mistake, pisstake or real. Thus it is with this risible piece of nonsense in Think Scotland (please do….)
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Post Brexit Anger
This article made me think – what happens when the majority of the British people who voted to leave the EU realise that they were duped, conned, gulled, lied to and …they swallowed it?
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Ireland and Scotland – some high level economic comparisons
Much of the debate on putative Scottish independence strikes me, from a distance, as somewhat odd. On the independence side there is a a strong debate on what currency to use when the real issue is the ability of an independent Scotland, within or without the EU/Euro to manage its very very large banking system.…
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Thoughts on Post Brexit Scotland and NI
Source: SCOT goes POP! There has been a lot of talk in recent days about devising a model that would allow Scotland, Gibraltar and possibly Northern Ireland to remain part of both the UK and the EU. Here are a few reasons why that is very unlikely to happen – 1) Even if England and…
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An independent Scotland faces a banking crisis…what does HM Treasury do?
One of the arguments around the Scottish referendum on independence is centred on its banks. These are, simply, ginormous at around 1200% GDP. There is no way that an independent Scotland could, if push came to shove, bail them out. QED, don’t take the risk. Stick with the Treasury and the UK… Hmm. Not quite…
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Scotland post independence – what currency would, could, it use?
Scotland will vote in September on whether to break from the rest of the UK. (RUK) The polls suggest they wont, but its all coming to a boil. A, possibly THE, major issue is the economy. Bill Clinton could have told Salmond that – it’s the economy stupid. At the heart of the debate seems…