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Politics : Did the Great Experiment Fail?

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To: average joe who wrote (871)	2/19/2014 9:20:04 AM
From: Tom Clarke	Read Replies (1) of 926

If Scotland wins independence, should it bring back the Stuart dynasty? By Peter Oborne February 18th, 2014 It has been a bad week for Alex Salmond, the First Minister of Scotland and leader for the Yes campaign for independence. First, he was told that his plan to keep the pound as Scotland’s currency is not supported by any of the three major political parties at Westminster. Even the independent Permanent Secretary to the Treasury warned that Salmond’s ideas were “fraught with difficulty.” Now the European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso announced that it would be “extremely difficult, if not impossible” for an independent Scotland to enter the European Union. Barroso is speaking from a position of knowledge. Not only the Spanish, but also the Belgian and the Italian governments would be extremely reluctant to welcome the Scots, fearing that a precedent would be set for their own independence movements. It is also worth raising a third matter. Will the Queen be allowed to remain as Scottish monarch? I have no doubt that the Queen herself would strongly prefer that she did. But it is not simply a matter for her. She is constitutionally obliged to take the advice of the Prime Minister, David Cameron. Cameron has already denied Scotland the pound sterling. He is entitled to deny the Scots the House of Windsor, especially since the Scots had their own separate monarch before James the VI and I unified the crowns of England and Scotland in 1603. blogs.telegraph.co.uk

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