Alistair, do you have a plan (b)? Dear Alistair, As a member of Labour for Independence I watched your performance on TV in the ‘great debate’ and I thought you were wonderful, but there is just a few wee questions. This thing about Scotland having a flag, and a capital but no currency, great punch-line I thought, but it is not true, is it? Scotland has the pound sterling which it is using now and which it will continue to use after the majority of us have voted yes next month. Indeed up until the Scottish Government and the sovereign Scottish people decide otherwise. As you know yourself, this is an open international currency so Scotland needs no permission from anyone to use it. I also thought you handled that wee upstart Salmond well when he suggested that Scotland could enter into a ‘currency union’ with the rest of the UK after independence. The bare-face cheek of the guy when everybody knows it was your idea in the first place and he was trying to steal the credit. But you told him where to go with that idea didn’t you? Even if Scotland owns over 8% of the BoE and the same percentage share in all British asset that’s no grounds for them thinking that they can do a deal with your friend David, is it? Even if the r-UK would be left with all the UK national debt if there was no agreement? Even if the r-UK economy were facing a huge increase in debt-GDP ratio, Balance of Payments deficit, and income/expenditure deficit, that is no reason for your friend David to agree anything with cheeky Alex Salmond, is it? The fact that your friend David agreed in the Edinburgh Agreement to work together with the Scottish Government in the best interests of both communities, that’s still no reason to consider such an understanding with Salmond, is it? O you had forgotten about that agreement, and you think David has too, well you can’t be expected to remember everything when you are trying to run two jobs to manage your Westminster expenses account and keep Gordon Brown off your back, can you? By the way Gordon thinks you have been used by David as a stooge and that if the Scots fail to vote for independence David will claim that as a great Tory victory and will win the UK general election on the back of it. If on the other hand the Scots vote for independence Labour will have backed the wrong Tory horse, but you know Gordon, he is so unpredictable. However I am left with one question Alistair: what if there is a refusal to agree to a ‘currency union’ for political reasons and, for all the obvious reasons set out above, the money markets start demanding that the r-UK which has responsibility for the UK National Debt and for sterling’s massive international liabilities, do something urgent to meet their obligation, do you know what David’s plan (b) is? Or is it possible that David asked you to go on TV and play this card in his place so that he could tell the money markets not to worry as it was not real it was all a political bluff to help the project fear work on the Scottish people. Your own public statements could after all be disregarded because you are not elected to any public office in Scotland or the UK you are just an appointed officer of a political campaign which will not exist when these important issues are being dealt with. I can’t believe that your friend David would use you like that Alistair, and I find it hard to believe that you would be foolish enough to be used in this way but there you are, stranger things have happened. Andy Anderson
Posted on: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 21:01:01 +0000
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