Dear All
On the issue of a currency
union, Scotland’s ‘jolly fat man’ Alex Salmond has botched it rather badly.
There wasn’t any planning
done which was credible, it was all crap and all assumption, the pound was used
by the SNP into not frightening Scottish voters in a rather weak attempt to
sway opinion.
Oh how quickly that strategy
fell on its arse.
Vote for independence
Salmond cries and everything will stay the same, well, that isn’t true, it
never was.
Recently Alex Salmond said
if there wasn’t a currency union that Scotland would default on its share of
the UK debt.
It was a stupid statement to
make and shows how petty Nationalism has become under his and Scotland’s
unpopular Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon’s failed leadership.
The UK Government has since
said they will underwrite all the debt, but more than that the UK will also not
be ‘lender of last resort’ for Scotland.
That’s serious because
without someone backing the debt, Scotland is vulnerable.
No triple AAA rating either.
So, SNP
plans for a currency union with the rest of the UK are "increasingly dead
in the water" according to Alistair Darling.
The only avenue that Salmond appears to have left is the Euro.
The Euro is so unstable that entry to it will be see a catastrophic effect
on Scotland’s public services.
Scotland would suffer the same fate as countries in Southern Europe
such as Greece.
Darling also rightly argues in his speech
that there was "no way" the European Union (EU) would allow an
independent Scotland to charge tuition fees to students from south of the
border.
That would be illegal according to some
experts.
On this thorny issue, Darling says that Salmond
must and should bring forward legal advice on this issue.
If it exists!
And as I have blogged previously, he has to
produce a plan B for Scotland's currency arrangements.
George Laird right again.
That phrase has a rather nice ring to it.
Alex Salmond, the failing First Minister
has already "damaged his credibility" over the Scottish Government's
legal advice in relation to EU membership along with unpopular Nicola Sturgeon.
Who could forget the Sun headline… EU Liar!
As to the White Paper, that is as Darling
says "largely a work of fiction" and a "catalogue of
promises", it is utter tripe, produced by simple minded people who lack
vision, talent and an understanding that this isn’t an election campaign.
There is a genuine lack of talent in the
SNP; it is a party within a party, if you look at the current crop of SNP EU
election candidates, not a single rank and file member of the party selected,
all Team Sturgeon and Team Salmond candidates.
That is why the Scottish independence
campaign is so dreadful; Salmond and Sturgeon surround themselves with
sycophants of little talent.
Darling mentions that Alex Salmond needs to
understand that he can’t impose currency union.
He said:
"Does he not accept that a currency
union needs both Scotland and the rest of the UK to agree to enter into it? Should
he not accept a currency union means both sides have to agree each other's
budgets? That is what is happening in Europe. And that is why it is difficult
to see anyone signing up to it. That is why it is increasingly dead in the
water."
SNP Westminster leader, a member of the ‘feeble
six’ Angus Robertson described Mr Darling's speech as "poor and
panicky".
This is a man who says that Scotland would
have a navy like Norway and when asked about what size that would be said he
hadn’t a clue.
The UK agreeing to underwriting the debt
because of Salmond’s stupid gambit leaves him with no option but to now have a
Plan B, that means a Scottish pound or the Euro, given the lack of a work
ethic, it looks increasingly that Salmond and Sturgeon would go the Euro route.
In principle the Euro seems a good idea, in
practice; it has been a disaster in Southern Europe who has a different type of
economy than Germany.
Scotland is no Germany, we would find
ourselves in trouble and because the SNP Government didn’t do reform of
Government or local Government, there would be severe cuts to budgets and
services.
Austerity like you wouldn’t believe.
I wonder if Salmond regrets his stupid
remark of defaulting on the UK debt now!
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow
University
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