Jim Osborne
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Scottish Currency Group responds to Scottish currency and foreign exchange myths (opens the original)
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THE Scottish Currency Group’s article in The National on August 3 about independence, a new social contract and currency generated some ill-informed comments that reveal common myths and misunderstandings about currency and foreign exchange. These are myths promoted by bankers, the media, economists and politicians. Unionists use similar tropes to scare the Scottish public away from support for independence. To make matters worse, the SNP seem to buy into the myths that these narratives convey.
The independence case is stuck â here's how the SNP can move it along (opens the original)
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THE independence movement is going round in circles and getting nowhere fast. Some might say we are âlostâ but to become lost you have to have set off on some direction in the first place. We arenât âlostâ, we are stuck. We are stuck because there is no clear leadership and too much reliance on having some complete plan which sets out all the steps to be taken to get from here to there. There cannot be any such plan because the future is not predictable. We have to find a way through a
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