Posted: Apr 26, 2017 11:27 am
Scot Dutchy wrote:A new currency would be madness when there is a perfectly good strong one available.
The problem, as ronmcd and Byron have pointed out, isn't any economic issue with the Euro, which as you've said, works largely as intended. The problem is overcoming the rabid xenophobic propaganda of rags such as the Daily Heil, which have been able to propagate venomous myths virtually unchallenged. Whilst I suspect the Scots are somewhat less likely to fall for this than the Little Englander brigade, the constant bombardment, backed by big money Tory interests, would intensify enormously if any Scottish politician openly welcomed the Euro as a potential Scottish currency, even as a long term strategic objective as opposed to an immediate option.
Of course, there's also the little matter of whether an independent Scotland would be able to meet the joining criteria for the Euro, an entirely separate question, but at the moment, the toxic propaganda atmosphere that exists in the UK cannot be ignored, as much as many Scots themselves wish it could. One of the benefits that independence would bring, would be to decouple Scotland from that toxic propaganda atmosphere, because the Scots could set about implementing measures to defuse the likes of the Daily Heil. Which is something that the Tories are scared shitless of - an entire nation of people, sharing an easily traversible land border with the rest of the UK, freeing themselves from Tory shackles, telling the Tories to go and fuck themselves with a razor wire dildo, and implementing a successful social democratic economy. This would be the nightmare scenario for the fake "austerity" plutocracy Tories, who want to propagate the myth that No Alternative ExistsTM to their destruction of humane civil society, and its replacement with The Hunger Games.
The fact remains that any push for independence on the part of Scotland, will become a seriously dirty propaganda knife fight the moment the Tories think it's likely to free 5 million people from their evil clutches, and worse still, provide a refuge for the rest of us to run to once the Tories start going hyper-Norsefire. The entire Tory programme is aimed at stamping the plebs into subjugation, with no possibility of escape, and the moment an escape from their insidious fascist vision of the future presents itself, they'll do anything to destroy it. I hold the view that they'll even fabricate excuses to start a war with an independent Scotland if it's too successful at trashing Tory myths. There is no calumny, no venality, no pure evil that the current Tories will leave untouched in pursuit of their return to mediaeval plutocracy, and I see it as perfectly proper to warn the Scots of this, not least because I might need them to save what's left of my life once the Tories show their true nature in an unbridled manner.