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There will be a new Scottish pound if the country breaks away from the UK but talk of passports to get to England is "utter nonsense", Scotland's first minister has said.
Before the UK introduced decimal coins there were some coins unique to Scotland. There was a Scottish shilling which was a different design to the English/Wales/NI one. Both could be used in all four countries very similar to how the different Euro coins can be used in any Euro Zone country now.
Correct me if I am wrong but Sturgeon has said she wants a Scottish Pound and she wants Scotland to rejoin the European Union. Somehow I don't think that will fly. The EU will demand they use the Euro if they do manage to rejoin. So a Scottish Pound will be possibly short lived and will probably lose a lot of value against the Pound Sterling before they can change. (Although the Poms are doing a good job of that with the Pound against other currencies at the moment.)
Will Scotland be able to meet the financial criteria to join the Euro if their new Scottish Pound dives in value? Or will they be given fast track admission because they were de-facto members as part of the UK previously and most of Scotland voted to remain in the EU? Will the Scottish people rip the Union of Scotland and England apart in a referendum vote?
All interesting questions that Sturgeon has to deal with. Personally I think she is playing with fire.
Mike
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Before the UK introduced decimal coins there were some coins unique to Scotland. There was a Scottish shilling which was a different design to the English/Wales/NI one. Both could be used in all four countries very similar to how the different Euro coins can be used in any Euro Zone country now.
Correct me if I am wrong but Sturgeon has said she wants a Scottish Pound and she wants Scotland to rejoin the European Union. Somehow I don't think that will fly. The EU will demand they use the Euro if they do manage to rejoin. So a Scottish Pound will be possibly short lived and will probably lose a lot of value against the Pound Sterling before they can change. (Although the Poms are doing a good job of that with the Pound against other currencies at the moment.)
Will Scotland be able to meet the financial criteria to join the Euro if their new Scottish Pound dives in value? Or will they be given fast track admission because they were de-facto members as part of the UK previously and most of Scotland voted to remain in the EU? Will the Scottish people rip the Union of Scotland and England apart in a referendum vote?
All interesting questions that Sturgeon has to deal with. Personally I think she is playing with fire.
Mike
Mike, the British 1 Shilling coins from 1937 to 1966 & the 1970 Proof ones have a design not just to reflect both England & Scotland, but they paid tribute to the fact that Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother was Scots, & that the Royal Family ARE direct descendants of the Royal Stuarts.
Sturgeon is proving herself to be a fruitcake on many issues - & her harping on about independence for Scotland is pissing off a lot of people not only in Scotland, but those in the Scots diaspora as well! She is forgetting that a lot of people in Scotland also voted ‘Leave’ in the 2016 Referendum - & that a lot of Scots families have someone living elsewhere in the British Isles.
As for Scotland joining the hated ‘E.U.’, the S.N.P. fruitcakes wrongly blame Westminster & want to come under the rule of Eurocrats sitting in Brussels & Strasbourg - which is NOT even independence at all!
Recently, I was speaking with an older Scots woman who was glad to have left Scotland as she couldn't stand the S.N.P. & how idiotic they really are.
I told her, “ I understand where you are coming from, as I am of Scots descent myself, & I am a Unionist who is proud to have His Majesty King Charles III as my King. I detest politicians in general myself, so I am fiercely loyal to the King himself”.
From the bottom of my heart, I wish all people and their nations to have power and power (if they wish it) -the right to self-determination and the right to one's own state and independence in politics, culture and all related matters.
( It's strange that many of you here are unpleasant and it pisses you off)
The creation and division of "Czechoslovakia" is an example - Creation is purely the right of two peoples to live together in one state -and division after the Velvet Revolution and the creation of two separate states is the right of nations , and believe that relations between people are better than before the division. ( and one has the euro currency and the other doesn't, and it doesn't bother us)
Before the division we used to make fun of each other something like between Walloons and Vlaams in Belgium ( I was at the invitation of the Royal Army in the town of Huy and spent a lot of time there with the Belgian soldiers and their humor with each other on national characteristics)
I wish the Scots their own state and their own coins and notes and I recognize their right to govern themselves
Even Ukrainians have their right to their land and their state and to determine their independence.
I know chairman-he will say politics nou- but this is personal- I'm Scottish too - as well as an Irishman and a Welshman -3,7 %
My DNA:
Balkan ( The "Doudleb" tribe from South Bohemia lived for a long time in the territory of "Panonia" and was pushed out by the "Avari"-Paternal DNA) 47.7% Northern and Western European 23.8% Baltian 16.7% Eastern European 8.1% Irish, Scots, Welsh ( Looks like my Celtic ancestors on my mother's side) 3.7%
However, I mint my own coins in my backyard, so I have a currency and I wish it to all the nations and people of the world if you wish to have your own state, then do something and become independent and don't let some "company to decide about it"
I'm sorry, as it was already pointed out here once, "emotionally charged", I'm Scottish too!
Nice post MIMAEL, I'm Scottish as well although 5%, I can see that you have used Ancestry DNA and from my results I'm 26% Northwestern European, 20% Indigenous American-Mexican and 20% Spanish. While the rest is a mixture of Germanic, Swedish, Scottish, Irish, Senegal, Benin and Togo, Nigeria, Basque, Albanian, North and west African.
Hi to whoever is reading this. Did you know that TYPEWRITER (on a QWERTY keyboard) is the longest word you can type using only the letters on one row of the keyboard.
Nice post MIMAEL, I'm Scottish as well although 5%, I can see that you have used Ancestry DNA and from my results I'm 26% Northwestern European, 20% Indigenous American-Mexican and 20% Spanish. While the rest is a mixture of Germanic, Swedish, Scottish, Irish, Senegal, Benin and Togo, Nigeria, Basque, Albanian, North and west African.
Greetings to the island.
Well, that's a real genetic charge, that is the range of ancestors as it should be. If you enrich the next generation of your descendants in the future with "genes of Russia. Ukrainians - they are the same brothers" so they will hopefully gain global scope …..😃😀😄 my humor
I had the analysis ( DNA) done in the summer in the USA at the company ,, My Heritage,,
and just for interest, the number of people related by the same DNA abroad and it continues to small islands in the Caribbean:
But excuse me colleagues, the subject is coins in Scotland and GB: So fellows -,, be rather happy,,
That you don't have "two busts - the royal majesties together with the prime minister" on the coins.
Your mints would melt with heat and the mint masters would voluntarily jump into the Thames with 5 per mille of whiskey in their blood-with the turbulence in such a short time.
That's why I wish everyone to start getting closer to better times, colleagues.
Well, as long as Scotland isn't independent (if it ever is), Nicola Sturgeon can always hire some businessman to make some "coins" in China so she can have more money, by selling the coins, to his cause.
This is how a businessman from Catalonia did it with the "euros" that he commissioned from a Chinese company to pocket good money with the feelings of the sovereignists in Catalonia who bought those tokens (which, by the way, seems to be that they are not a majority)
Greetings from a Catalan, Spanish, European and human of the world.
Coin referee for: Andorra, Equatorial Guinea, Marshall Islands, Moldova, Liberia and Spain
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This topic is very interesting but please, keep within the limits: we may discuss everything, with evidences, opinions, arguments, not with insults or offensive comments
Well, as long as Scotland isn't independent (if it ever is), Nicola Sturgeon can always hire some businessman to make some "coins" in China so she can have more money, by selling the coins, to his cause.
This is how a businessman from Catalonia did it with the "euros" that he commissioned from a Chinese company to pocket good money with the feelings of the sovereignists in Catalonia who bought those tokens (which, by the way, seems to be that they are not a majority)
Greetings from a Catalan, Spanish, European and human of the world.
👍
It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure, that just ain't so. Mark Twain
Nice post MIMAEL, I'm Scottish as well although 5%, I can see that you have used Ancestry DNA and from my results I'm 26% Northwestern European, 20% Indigenous American-Mexican and 20% Spanish. While the rest is a mixture of Germanic, Swedish, Scottish, Irish, Senegal, Benin and Togo, Nigeria, Basque, Albanian, North and west African.
Greetings to the island.
Well, that's a real genetic charge, that is the range of ancestors as it should be. If you enrich the next generation of your descendants in the future with "genes of Russia. Ukrainians - they are the same brothers" so they will hopefully gain global scope …..😃😀😄 my humor
I had the analysis ( DNA) done in the summer in the USA at the company ,, My Heritage,,
and just for interest, the number of people related by the same DNA abroad and it continues to small islands in the Caribbean:
But excuse me colleagues, the subject is coins in Scotland and GB: So fellows -,, be rather happy,,
That you don't have "two busts - the royal majesties together with the prime minister" on the coins.
Your mints would melt with heat and the mint masters would voluntarily jump into the Thames with 5 per mille of whiskey in their blood-with the turbulence in such a short time.
That's why I wish everyone to start getting closer to better times, colleagues.
Ahoj Ivan
Well it would be hard to also include genes from the Middle East, Asia and Oceania into the mixture. 🙃
silvergeek
well of all the British isles my ancestry comes mostly form Scotland lol
Interesting. 🧐
Anyway back on topic.
Hi to whoever is reading this. Did you know that TYPEWRITER (on a QWERTY keyboard) is the longest word you can type using only the letters on one row of the keyboard.
Unfortunately it doesn't look like there'll be Scottish coins any time soon. The British state is like a car, with Scotland and Wales in the back seat, Northern Ireland in the front passenger seat with it's eyes closed whilst playing a flute and England driving us off a cliff, mowing down any unfortunate foreigner that gets in the way.
