Scotland will be banned from using the pound the pandas could be taken away… What!?
In light of MPs in Westminster and newspapers down south coming up with plenty of reasons for Scotland to remain in the UK, or for England to keep us, here’s some of them and why they are bullshit (mostly).
Beginning with a story The Mirror published detailing that we will be banned from using the pound and shockingly will loose our two very popular pandas currently unaware relaxing in Edinburgh Zoo. Okay, we will be able to keep the pound because sterling can be used all over the world, never mind just in the UK. The pandas will also be safe as they were a gift to Edinburgh Zoo not the UK, this was just The Mirror clutching at Straws and trying to wind us up – nice try.
Defence Secretary Philip Hammond said that Scotland would have to spend billions on moving Trident nuclear weapons out of Scotland. Another scare tactic that is wrong, Scotland never asked for nuclear weapons to be house here in the first place, we simply send them back to England on a convoy.
Perhaps the biggest problem that we all know about is the massive debt Scotland will take on. The Daily Mail has decided that Scotland will have £140bn worth of debt to pay off. Coming up with this enormous figure by handing Scotland 10% of the UK wide debt which is £1.4 trillion (holy shit). Think of it this way The Herald says: “So, if Scotland is in the red, England would be even redder – and Scotland at least has the oil.” In the end though the UK is in it together, forgetting Scotland’s potential independence.
Chancellor George Osborne has suggested that Scotland could face not being allowed to join the European Union – WRONG!! Almost as stupid as the panda situation, Scotland would remain in the EU because we are already in the EU and follow EU Law.
Another thing to think about is what will happen to the banks if there is a split? Well Scotland looks in not too bad shape in that front, considering that two of England’s biggest banks RBS and HBOS are both based in Edinburgh. England could try break up these banks in Scotland out of spite, but would not dare as England, as well as Scotland’s, borrowing would increase significantly. They would pretty much be committing financial suicide, even though the banks are already in the shit, and perhaps leading to them loosing there already unsteady AAA credit and all its perks and respect that comes with it.
The Herald, Iain Macwhirther found some good irony in the popularity of the independence in Scotland and not so much in England. In the 1999 Scottish Parliamentery election, “when all the Scottish media seemed to gang up on the SNP at once. These arguments mostly date from then, even if the UK press has only discovered them. But, ask yourself: who got the last laugh?”.
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