The House of Commons Scottish Affairs committee compared our Pied Piper’s reluctance to accept his plan for a currency union will not happen with the Monty Python sketch in which a pet shop owner refuses to admit a bird he sold was dead: “The Scottish Government tries to give the impression that a currency union is still a possibility. It is not. This parrot is dead. We have had complete clarity and openness on this from George Osborne, Ed Balls and Danny Alexander: from the leadership of the three main political parties in the United Kingdom. All were unequivocal. No future Chancellor could perform an about-turn on a currency union after a Yes vote in September’s referendum without destroying both their political and economy credibility. There would be no currency union of any kind: no ifs, no buts, no fudges, no deals.”
Posted on: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 09:05:46 +0000