Posted: Apr 29, 2017 9:59 pm
Byron wrote:Scot Dutchy wrote:Of course Byron keeps going on about the EEA as if that is an answer. It is neither one thing or the other. A halfway house going no where. The countries in it are exceptional and the UK is not which is the major problem. The illusion being that the UK is something which it is not.
I go on about the EEA 'cause, within the constraints of Brexit, it's the only way to save the UK's service-based economy from ruination. It's not an ideal option. It is the best available answer to the mess caused by Brexit.
And for the last time; Article 50 is not a way to get EEA, EFTA, Custom's Union or anything else. It's a way to exit the EU and all that entails.
Byron wrote:Zerne, if your callsign's now foxtrot oscar, not much more to be said on this. I will note that transition to an independent currency can be rapid -- Poland moved from state socialism to a convertible złoty in a matter of months -- and certainly something that Scotland could accomplish in the two year or so transitional period to independence.
Poland didn't launch a new currency. It could've, if it had wanted to, because it had a central bank and had had that in place for some 40 years at that point along with its own currency the złoty.
Not even a remotely comparable situation to an iScotland.
And to clarify; i told ronmcd to fuck off because i tire of having halfwit responses full of hot air and nothing else.
The idea that in the face of scaremongering we should somehow abandon any facts or rational response is retarded. It's a fiscal and economic argument. You fight this crap and you fight it with facts. You don't win anything by conceding defeat.
I also think you guys vastly overestimate the power of the media in this debate, especially the tabloids.