Monster hunt
I only hope we are sensible enough to use the euro. It makes absolute and total business sense to have the same currency as 17 fellow partners in countries where we need to create new markets, it also takes care of the central bank issue, the lender of last resort issue and pensions amongst other things. I think those people calling for our own currency are getting carried away with themselves and have no real understanding of international business and are pulling the wool over their eyes with nationalistic fervour over common sense.
Lawrence Target
Nick Blu It does not matter what Mark Carney thinks – currency union is not independence and to have English, Welsh and Northern Irish taxpayers as lenders of last resort to a country outside Britain is a political red line.
Adie Roebuck Stick yer sterling – we want the smackeroonie. Oh and Kevin Bridges for Chancellor.
Willie Leith Here’s an idea: why don’t we design a currency that is shared with our biggest trading partner, have a free market in goods and free movement of people with them, and live happily ever after, rather than scrabbling around like Greece for some barely acceptable compromise position that will be much worse than we have now? Someone needs to inform Mark Carney and the Bank of England that Scotland had its own pound currency prior to the Act of Union
Richard Elam Scotland could continue to use sterling after an independence vote but – and it is a pretty big but – it would put the fiscal and monetary levers of power back with Westminster and the BOE.
Malcolm Rutherford I have a strong feeling that if it went to a public vote in Scotland, the general consensus of opinion would be to ask the never ending stream of investigative scientists to leave the loch and its contents alone and in peace.
Peter Brown Leave her alone. If they do find Nessie, she’ll be put on show like in Jurassic Park, and we know how that ended.
Jackie Irvine Do we really want to know?
Andy Meikle How can you sample the Not all tourists are wealthy and can afford the higher cost. Most tourists have limited funds and will be tempted to find cheaper accommodation outside Edinburgh, or will simply go elsewhere for their holiday.
Francis Ferguson If tourists want to see Edinburgh they will cough up the tourist tax and probably spend less on eating out or shopping, which could damage our economy. They might also look to cheaper accommodation options like