Posted on 09/16/2014 11:28:05 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
The authority to issue money is the biggest lever of control.
The WHAT?!!!!!!
And as for egalitarianism; as soon as you try to force equality on people there and then the just society has committed suicide.
"A vote for separation would undermine both Scotland and the rest of the United Kingdom's defence," the letter says, printed in The Sun.
"The division of the UK may or may not be politically or economically sensible, but in military terms we are clear: it will weaken us all."
Not now, no, that’s for a future step.
Right now, “I love you”, “the check is in the mail”, etc.
If Scotland is an independent nation, can it FORCE the British Parliament to allow it to use British money ?
Just in case, you know, Britain ever finds it in its own interest to end the practice.
Lots of social program costs to be unloaded.
Meanwhile, insiders can make a killing in the process of the Scottish sheeple “going on their own”, like happened with Ireland.
Double Irish arrangement - Dutch sandwich
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Irish_arrangement#Dutch_sandwich
Now that’s enticing, a double Scotch with maybe a Jersey twist or something. Multi-nationals, accredited investors would jump in the pool and party.
“You have to say, ‘I love you.’ ”Today, on the eve of the vote that will decide the Union’s future, this paper extends an apology to all Scots for the way the Westminster political class has conducted itself.
We profoundly regret the arrogance, complacency and, most of all, the bullying threats that have characterised the sour ‘No’ campaign.
UKIP’s Farage: ‘Scots won’t get independence from EU with Yes vote’
http://rt.com/uk/186984-scottish-independence-referendum-farage/
Yes, if the other country is a trading partner and is less productive.
If they are a trading partner and more productive, you wind up economic effects that inherently tend towards a negative trade imbalance.
Scotland would feel pain over time - if Scotland had to maintain its own social welfare state on its own with no British subsidies, and was less productive per capita than Britain, but used the same money.
Of course, this could temporarily be moved in either direction by globalists decisions on what gets sourced from where, the same way China has been on a huge high based on the elite decision to move a lot of manufacturing there.
In the UK, the elites consider London “their place”, as they do New York in the US, so I seriously doubt they would move investment and trade such that Scotland would be favored over Britain by their activities for very many years.
Right now, the social welfare state slush fund covers the whole place.
Ireland, having separated, and being in financial difficulties, did not have any guarantee of British financial aid.
Note that Ireland was on the Euro, which did not cause the European regime to come rushing to their aid financially with overflowing generosity.
Piling up rocks only gets you so far. You also need a drum circle to be really effective.
Yes, but you should’ve seen the size of the drum circle!
I see what you did there...
btw, I sincerely hope UK votes UKIP and ditches the EU.
It's where the ghost of Steve McQueen rides his motorcycle.
mark
Was it a Triumph?
The Scotland vote is tomorrow, Thursday. They are hours ahead of us, so we should know by afternoon. The national UK elections are too complicated for me to describe definitively -- something like 6 per year of different types. I do know that their UKIP party (UK Independence Party) has been making steady gains over the past year. They have a multi-party system, and UKIP has shaken things up with its determination to take UK out of EU. The most aggravating points for the voters are that a bunch of bureaucrats in Belgium are making politically correct rules for all the other countries; that among these rules are the Michelle-like restrictions on household items -- they are about to have the voltage of all electrical applicances reduced to a state of inefficiency by new regulations (vacuums that won't pick up, irons that won't get hot enough, etc) and their schools and social organizations are a worse cesspool of Political Correctness than we have, if you can imagine.
Of greatly more concern is the EU's Maastricht Treaty of I think 2012, which mandates that any EU citizen can migrate without restriction to any other EU nation in search of work, and start getting benefits as soon as they arrive. As a result, literally hordes of unwashed and unskilled persons such as disaffected muslims or gypsies born in Eastern Europe are now flocking to London and Dublin and sleeping in parks or trashing up poor neighborhoods where the natives were already struggling to get by.
You may also have heard of the difficulties nations like UK have in trying to deport any hate imams, due to the PC rules from Belgium protecting the "human rights" of these terrorism preachers.
In short, the ordinary people are the rough equivalent of our middle class Republicans and traditionalists, the EU is the rough equivalent of our Marxist/Democrat/University/Judicial elites, and the UKIP is the rough equivalent of our Tea Party. But they aren't exactly parallel.
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