What is the win-win approach?

Move to Scotland: keep your investments in England ?

Anatole Kaletsky on the conequences:

Scottish Independence Would Ripple Through Europe
"What would Scottish independence mean for British politics and economic management in the nine months before the general election in May 2015? What would be the effect on the 2015 election? How will all this turmoil affect Britain’s fraught relationship with Europe? And would Scottish independence act as an inspiration for secessionist movements in other European countries? The answers to all four questions promise to be more destabilizing than almost anyone would have predicted a month ago."

What bothers me is that the Cons will get in again and push for that vote on Europe again.

How many Scots that voted stick will vote GO if for some stupid reason we leave Europe? All those who want Scotland to join Europe but voted stick last time. It only takes less than 10% change. That's not enough.

We could lose Europe and will then lose Scotland. Scary thought.

Anyway, there might be a Grexit before then. If they make a go of it, you can see the end of the Euro. My spare pasetas are dancing, I can hear them, from their box in the loft.


It's no mystery why 'the North' is a labour stronghold. Rich folk need Conservatism to keep them rich - Conservatism after all means 'no change'. Thatcher and Reagan together cooked up the 'Trickle Down' theory where the Southern Rich would become more proliferate, and it would trickle down to those who don't have a lot.

So, then. I have £12M in the bank. Do I go out and buy 12M more washing machines, 12M times more food? 12M times more cars? No, I spend my money in a very tight niche market. How does that trickle down? None of my spending would be on the local economy, or even particularly the UK economy. It was nonsense - total twaddle and SOMEONE gave her 11 years running the country! (not me, I was in ZA, because she'd made such a horses backside of things)

Where I live there are communities who remember how Thatcher left them high and dry after taking away their living. They had to remortgage their houses, and are still paying those mortgages this day. Visit Blackhall Rocks, have a look round. It wouldn't happen today, a large employer goes down and the workers get all sorts of help. That doesn't mean a lot to those in Peterlee, and Blackhall.

Oddly, a lot of the men up there ended up working on oil rigs. Now their jobs are at risk again, through no fault of their own. Recalcitrance on the American side by refusing to cut shale gas? Stubbornness on the Saudi side be refusing to cut output? Both. Lives depend on who blinks first.

I don't agree ...i'm a lot posher than a was last week...chuck

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