Hi @Christia_Allard you won't answer a question about currency because "this thread isn't about that"
No problem; here *is* a thread on currency.
No problem; here *is* a thread on currency.
You say we disagree with your currency position, but you won't say what your currency position *is*.
Is it a decade of Sterlingisation, knowing that it is *impossible* to meet the Economic Compenhagen Criteria, and join the EU, while Sterlingised?
Is 'as soon as practicable' any faster than the 6 growth Commission tests, or is it in fact; still the exact same growth commission timetable
Do you accept that unilateral non-maastricht Euro adoption is slowing / blocking Montenegro's ascension, and that the ECB has ruled them to be in conflict with EU treaties; is that your proposal?
Do you still hold that an independent Scotland would be economically better yet can't say the currency, set up costs, deficit or trading arrangements with our largest trading partners?
What currency will you pay Nurses, Teachers and civil-servants in?
Do you hold with weimerar style 'print your way out of debt' MMT?
Can you look a Scot in the eye and tell her that while his 25 year mortgage is paid back in GBP there's no downside risk to her wages being in a new currency?
Can you guarantee that any savings, pensions and investments in GBP won't be forced into a lower or weaker currency?
Can you outline where, given the set up costs of an iScot, we would find the foreign currency reserves to stabilise our new currency against runs and speculation?
If you can't, or won't, answer these yourself can @KateForbesMSP ? Or can the 'still being paid by the taxpayer' Derek McKay? Or the economic brief holding Fiona Hyslop?
