The problem, Leon, is what do they do about the currency? There is no answer to that question at all, so far as I can see. The political answer - sterlingisation - risks national bankruptcy. See: htt… (View Post)

I seem to remember that at one point he changed his name, by deedpoll, to Austin Haddock, in protest at the evisceration of the fishing industry. He was MP for Grimsby and an outspoken Euro-sceptic. … (View Post)

At the end of the day only the USA has the will and the resources to do anything serious about "out of area" interventions. The UK can, and sometimes does, support but obviously we cant act… (View Post)

There would almost certainly be a considerable degree of capital flight and relocations. Most decent-sized Scottish-based businesses work on the basis of the UK being their home market. Why be on the… (View Post)

The SNP's abandonment of the oil and gas sector, plus this, completely kills off any kind of economic case for Indy. It really is dead as a dodo. Attempting to engineer a deal with the Scottish Green… (View Post)