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I really wonder how long it will take for the people of Scotland to realise that if we don't take control of our own economy as quickly as possible then the Treasury and the City will drag us down so low that it will be almost impossible to recover.

How can Scotland control it's own economy, we don't have a currency. Will we use the Euro and let Brussels call the shots ? Use the pound sterling and let the bank of England call the shots, or create a Scottish pound which will probably be discounted against the pound sterling or not accepted outside Scotland ? Maybe we could go back to the gold sovereign or even the groat . The whole thing is academic , we cannot survive as a nation without the rest of the United Kingdom , which already owns most of Scotland anyway , however much we desire it, sentiment does not put food on the table, so better to get 30 SNP MPs into westminster to give Scotland an effective voice.

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I don't intend to argue with you about the surviving without the rest of the UK. I will just point you at Norway and ask you to exercise a little intuition.

Douglas

"The Scottish Government takes longer than the UK Office for National Statistics to compile figures and extrapolate the Scottish bits of the UK data."

Isn't this a little bit naughty? Extrapolating "the Scottish bits" from the inadequate UK data causes much of the difficulty.

2. kaybraes

My Dutch relatives would contest that the Netherlands doesn't control it's own economy. They recognise their inter-relationship with a much wider economy and the need to accept some restrictions for that wider relationship. But they have independence that Scots don't have.