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Fiat Money and Independence for Scotland
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I normally like Hugo's articles but this is the most shameless attempt to promote a personal agenda by highjacking a current event I've ever seen. Does Hugo know anything about Scottish/English history? Simply saying Dr Johnson was well received is embarrassingly weak. Anti-English sentiment has run deep in Scotland pretty much forever. Even the romans had to build a bloody wall across the north of England to protect themselves! To be frank the fiat currency is one problem in a long list which comes way behind things like land seizure, serfdom, mass deportation, rape, military intimidation etc etc.
Sometimes I feel it is a disadvantage to have this kind of legitimate grudge though. It stops countries from seeing things as they are. Argentinians still genuinely seem to believe that everything will be alright if they could only get the Falklands back. The Bolivians still persist in believing that everything would be OK again if they could win back the strip of pacific coast they lost in a war to Chile in 1879. Some people in Scotland seem to think that without being tied to England they'll be able to form a socialist utopia. I suspect after several terms of labour they would lurch to the right and end up with pretty much the same politics as the rest of the UK anyway. I'd like to think if Scotland gained independence it would have to stop blaming England for everything, but I suspect it won't make much difference. If they don't get independence and things are less than perfect it will still be England's fault. If they do get it and things are less than perfect (which is inevitable) it will continue to be England's fault.
Weirdly the English are largely ambivalent and on the whole quite like the Scottish. As an Englishman married to a Scot we have chosen to live in England as I would be the victim of daily casual racism in Scotland, but the same doesn't occur to her living here.
Besides all this, if it is fiat currency that is the problem why are the pro-independence lobby insisting that they wish to continue to use Stirling?
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By Hugo Salinas PriceDoctor: I told you thirty years ago that you should stop smoking and you didnt; now you have full-blown emphysema.Patient: Thats all beside the point. I want to know what to do now.Scotland and England got along together fine, for 150 years; now half the population of Scotland says they want a divorce. Perhaps they will get it.For most people it is probably beside the point to discover why the relationship between Scotland and England deteriorated. But Enquiring minds...
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