Alex Salmond unprepared for Independence

Know body from the SNP has approached The Bank of England about using the UK £.
It's a shocking revelation that the SNPs are so badly prepared for Independence that with the referendum days away, they haven't got an agreement on what currency an independent Scotland will use. Read the blog Scotland's Currency Debate

It looks as though Alex Salmond still expects the Scottish public to blindly follow him into Independence, without him revealing hard facts and the truth on all the key issues.

It is obvious that he intends to use the UK pound informally until such time as he negotiates entry to the EU, if he is able to do so. The biggest problem with this is that Scotland doesn't have a lender of last resort.

Last week, the First Minister refused to name his Plan B on currency in an STV debate with Alistair Darling . He repeatedly said that a separate Scotland would keep the pound, as part of a Euro style currency zone with the rest of the UK, despite everyone involved in the decision saying that this would not happen if we left the UK.

It really is time for him to stop playing about, and tell the Scottish public the truth about whether he has costed any plans properly, or whether he is going to leave it to see if he wins the vote, then start running round like a headless chicken trying to repair the damage he has done to Scotland and the people of Scotland, who are going to pay for his inability to come clean on his policies.

He will be relying on the UK to lend his government money, some chance! He might be able to go to the I.M.F. or the Euro Central Bank, but without proper policies and costings in place, why should they help? Why should the EU change the rules about entry just for him? And why should all the other countries in the EU vote for his Independent Scotland joining.

Running a country is like running a business, the only difference is the consequences are much greater, and they end up with the Scots paying for his inabilities.

Alex Salmond should have had all his plans costed and approved long before he announced his bid for Independence. You would have thought that he would have had more sense than to launch his idea of Independence, during one of the longest periods of depression and recession.



He talks the talk, but can’t walk the walk.

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