Quote of the day (sorry, Brexit related)

[Seeker]

Originally Posted by Talking Heads

Oh god no, not the gers figures, you do know what those are and how they came into being?


You don't?


OK, here you go:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4C8trs8mGhk
https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/...led-crap-data/

https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/...ical-exercise/

well ok, so nobody knows Scotland's GDP or deficit? Won't be that be a problem when it comes to borrowing? Anyway, it's speculation, we still have the Brexit fiasco to deal with first.

[Talking Heads]

Brexit doesn't have to come first, Scotland could be independent before brexit happens.

[SV650rules]

Is Scotland that country with a GDP roughly the same as Yorkshire ?

I read the other day that whatever happens with mainland the Shetland Isle want to to remain part of UK.

Probably because of this https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/s...owth-2j95qvpg6

And Scottish banks really would have collapsed after 2008 if UK ( ok England ) had not bailed them out at a loss to English taxpayers.

Also bailed out RofI banks, but as they have proved during brexit no good deed ever goes unpunished. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/banksandfinance/9813358/British-taxpayers-funded-Irelands-14bn-bail-out.html

https://www.theguardian.com/business...-seven-billion

You will be needing a currency as well, how does the failing Euro tickle your fancy ?

[Biker Biggles]

Have a little google for Sir Ivan Rogers Nine Lessons of Brexit and tell me what he says isnt true. Its a devastating precis of the last three years events and where they are likey headed. No comfort there for either side of this ludicrous debate.

[SV650rules]

Originally Posted by Biker Biggles

Have a little google for Sir Ivan Rogers Nine Lessons of Brexit and tell me what he says isnt true. Its a devastating precis of the last three years events and where they are likey headed. No comfort there for either side of this ludicrous debate.

Not this Ivan rogers - the establishment arch remainer Europhile who is now seeking to justify his position opposing the result when his job was to carry out the wishes of UK electorate ?

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/...sitive-brexit/

[Talking Heads]

Originally Posted by SV650rules

Is Scotland that country with a GDP roughly the same as Yorkshire ?

I read the other day that whatever happens with mainland the Shetland Isle want to to remain part of UK.

Probably because of this https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/s...owth-2j95qvpg6

And Scottish banks really would have collapsed after 2008 if UK ( ok England ) had not bailed them out at a loss to English taxpayers.

Also bailed out RofI banks, but as they have proved during brexit no good deed ever goes unpunished. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/banksandfinance/9813358/British-taxpayers-funded-Irelands-14bn-bail-out.html

https://www.theguardian.com/business...-seven-billion

You will be needing a currency as well, how does the failing Euro tickle your fancy ?

OK, if Scotland is such a basket case, can you please explain exactly why the Westminster government continues to fight tooth and nail to keep a hold of it?
Scotland claims its independence and England is fukt.


Oh and the Scottish banks you speak of were Scottish in name only in 2008.


As for currency, we can use whatever currency we damn well choose.

[Biker Biggles]

Read the text and then discuss what he says,not just attack the person.

[littleoldman2]

Originally Posted by Talking Heads

OK, if Scotland is such a basket case, can you please explain exactly why the Westminster government continues to fight tooth and nail to keep a hold of it?

Not really noticed, but if they are then they are out of step with the vast majority of the English population who would be happy to see an independent Scotland. That's not my view btw just what I see and hear.

Originally Posted by Talking Heads

As for currency, we can use whatever currency we damn well choose.

Yes and it worked very well for the Slovenians when they used the DM. Only problem is that you then have no real control over bond and interest rates and I would have thought give the problems experienced by Spain, Greece and lately Italy an independent country would want that control.

[Talking Heads]

Originally Posted by littleoldman2

I would have thought give the problems experienced by Spain, Greece and lately Italy an independent country would want that control.

Which is why once Scotland is independent it can decide exactly what it wants to do about currency. (and everything else)

[Talking Heads]

Originally Posted by littleoldman2

Not really noticed, but if they are then they are out of step with the vast majority of the English population who would be happy to see an independent Scotland.

Yep, vast swathes of the English electroate really haven't much of a clue about anything about Scotland.
As an example they still believe the lie of England subsidising Scotland.

Fact is, its the other way round.


Don't get me wrong, I myself am part English, my wife is English and most of my family live there.
Any axe I may be grinding is with the (unfit for purpose) system of government at westminster.