Polls are showing the Scottish Nationalists may win the referendum and Scotland will secede from the United Kingdom. Save your Dixie cups, the South will rise again. Far as I know, the arguments for Scottish independence are all emotional and sentimental, reviving medieval heroes like William Wallace and peotry by Robert Burns. The arguments against are cold economic ones involving exports to the EU, converting to the Euro. Scotland is the thinly populated, poorer part of England, and cutting themselves off from exports to and subsidies from England is gonna hurt.
It will also hurt British pride, and reduce British influence somewhat, but probably not too much to withstand.
Wonder how it will work out? Up North of here, the Quebecois figured out that secession from Canada wasn't worth the pain. Took 'em 20 years to figure it out, but they did.
Film at eleven.
Showing posts with label Scottish separatism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Scottish separatism. Show all posts
Sunday, September 7, 2014
Saturday, February 22, 2014
I'll take the high road and you'll take the low road
And I'll be in Scotland before ye. Scotland, formerly an independent kingdom, merged with England at the beginning of the 17th century. It was part of the deal upon the death of the childless Queen Elizabeth, by which the Scottish King, James, became king of England, as well as of Scotland. So this is a deal that goes way back. Despite some tensions, and a number of old rivalries, the merger worked fairly well, at least to outsiders, it looked like the writ of the London government ran over all of the British Isles, and it has been that way for 400 years.
Zap, Pow, Kablam. Save your whiskey cups, the Scots will rise again. Scottish separatism has come to the point where there will be a referendum on Scottish independence in September. Polling right now is mixed, the referendum might go either way. If Scotland votes to leave Great Britain there are a number of "issues". Like money. The Scots want to keep using the British pound, the Brits have said "No way". The Scots want to become/remain EU members and the EU is saying, "Perhaps, but no guarantees". Who knows what this will do to the British Army, who will have to turn the Black Watch, all the kilts, all the bagpipes over to the Scots. The Brits get to keep their redcoats and bearskin hats, but no more bagpipers piping the troops into the attack, like we see in all the old WWII movies..
Or course Scottish separatism may go the way of Quebec separatism, where it got voted down by a thin margin some years ago, and has died out.
When Quebec separatism was riding high (before the referendum) some Quebec leaders visited Wall St to inquire about floating bonds and exchanging the newly created Quebec currency. According to the Wall St Journal, the Americans poured cold water on the separatist idea. The Quebecers were told, no loans, no bonds, and we won't accept your currency. Which had something to do with the referendum failing a few months later.
Zap, Pow, Kablam. Save your whiskey cups, the Scots will rise again. Scottish separatism has come to the point where there will be a referendum on Scottish independence in September. Polling right now is mixed, the referendum might go either way. If Scotland votes to leave Great Britain there are a number of "issues". Like money. The Scots want to keep using the British pound, the Brits have said "No way". The Scots want to become/remain EU members and the EU is saying, "Perhaps, but no guarantees". Who knows what this will do to the British Army, who will have to turn the Black Watch, all the kilts, all the bagpipes over to the Scots. The Brits get to keep their redcoats and bearskin hats, but no more bagpipers piping the troops into the attack, like we see in all the old WWII movies..
Or course Scottish separatism may go the way of Quebec separatism, where it got voted down by a thin margin some years ago, and has died out.
When Quebec separatism was riding high (before the referendum) some Quebec leaders visited Wall St to inquire about floating bonds and exchanging the newly created Quebec currency. According to the Wall St Journal, the Americans poured cold water on the separatist idea. The Quebecers were told, no loans, no bonds, and we won't accept your currency. Which had something to do with the referendum failing a few months later.
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