A Mean And Stupid Thing To Do

[poliphilo]

Telling the Scots they'll have to stop using our money if they vote for independence (as all three major parties have done in a concerted, pre-emptive strike) is peevish and spiteful- and if I were a Scot I'd be feeling very Braveheart about it.

Do they (the pols) think a failing marriage can be saved by threats?

Really our leaders are such fools. 

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[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

That said, Wee Eck's own porkies are not helpful. What he is not saying is that if Scotland does go independent and wishes to remain in the EU they'll be required to join both the Eurozone and Schengen.

Does Salmond seriously want a foreign banking system controlling his country's currency?

He's also trying to get votes for assorted Americans and Canadians and others with less Scottish ancestry than me (mine's great grandparental) whilst denying a vote to my English based Scottish husband. Some democrat he!

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

The SNP are almost certainly going to lose the vote- and Salmond is getting desperate.

All the same I think it's crazy- at a human level- to conduct the Union campaign in such a hostile manner. It think it's counterproductive. Again, whichever way the vote goes the Scots and the English and going to have to live with one another afterwards.