Sep 18th 2014, 14:36:29
No one's talking about the Scottish referendum.... only about guns & NFL players, so....
What are your thoughts on the Scottish independence movement?
To me, it has a lot of the same hallmarks of the 1995 Quebec referendum in Canada -- last minute pleas to stay by federal leaders, crazy assumptions by the separatists on how rosy things will be after separation, and an alienation of the rest of the country in trying to placate a group already perceived as getting a better deal that other members of the union.
The biggest issue I see is that Spain will block Scotland from joining the EU as to not let Catalonia and if that happens and Scotland isn't able to join the EU that will really hurt them. Either way, Scotland will lose any control or say over their own central bank if they separate which is a major problem that would, personally, cause me to vote no if I lived there.
Thoughts?
What are your thoughts on the Scottish independence movement?
To me, it has a lot of the same hallmarks of the 1995 Quebec referendum in Canada -- last minute pleas to stay by federal leaders, crazy assumptions by the separatists on how rosy things will be after separation, and an alienation of the rest of the country in trying to placate a group already perceived as getting a better deal that other members of the union.
The biggest issue I see is that Spain will block Scotland from joining the EU as to not let Catalonia and if that happens and Scotland isn't able to join the EU that will really hurt them. Either way, Scotland will lose any control or say over their own central bank if they separate which is a major problem that would, personally, cause me to vote no if I lived there.
Thoughts?
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