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I put it to you that if the SNP were capable of handling complex matters of state they would have anticipated the possibility of being denied a currency union, and they would have developed a detailed policy plan and time table for implementing a new currency as a means of calling the UK governments bluff. The idea that Scotland could pursue a policy of sterlingisation is insane. It would be better off with Bitcoin, which at least isn't subject to the decisions and interests of a separate sovereign state. Are you conversant with the impacts that monetary policy has on an economy?
Again, this willful reduction of Independence to being just the SNP.
And, the irony of one minute being expected to defend the performance of Blair, Brown and Darling as Scottish actors in New Labour and representative of Scottish reach and power at Westminster, and then told that Scotland lacks the potential to produce people capable of handling complex matters of state...
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If you think the challenges of running a devolved parliament are of the same order of magnitude as running a government post independence, you are living in cloud cuckoo land.
I put it to you that if the SNP were capable of handling complex matters of state they would have anticipated the possibility of being denied a currency union, and they would have developed a detailed policy plan and time table for implementing a new currency as a means of calling the UK governments bluff. The idea that Scotland could pursue a policy of sterlingisation is insane. It would be better off with Bitcoin, which at least isn't subject to the decisions and interests of a separate sovereign state. Are you conversant with the impacts that monetary policy has on an economy?