Quote Originally Posted by parcbara View Post
Anyone with a mortgage, or any other debts in British pounds, any public service worker or indeed any person on a wage paid by a Scottish employer, and any person drawing a pension in Scotland would be, in my opinion, mad to vote for independence. Set aside the politics. The impact of Scotland changing its currency will have a devastating effect on the spending power of the afore mentioned groups. It can only be assumed that the Scottish Nationalists either have not got the fiscal foresight or they are being very dishonest about the serious implications of such a move. I am pretty certain that it is the latter. Johnson is a chump and a chancer, but Sturgeon is as no better. All in my opinion of course.
You have hit the nail on the head.
Of course anyone in Scotland with any sense would not vote in favour of independence but there are a lot of deluded people throughout Scotland who think that Scotland becoming an independent country would be wonderful and all our problems would be solved.
The Scottish Nationalist politicians will not give the answer because they know the serious implications of a Scottish currency would be disastrous with the Scottish Groat being a fraction of the value of the British Pound.
When I ask the pro independence supporters on Islay what the currency would be in an independent Scotland they cannot give me an answer and tell me that I should stop reading Tory run newspapers.
What a bunch of tossers who will be the first to complain when they discover that the Barnett Formula gravy train has ended and the Groat in their pocket is worthless.