Saturday, March 8, 2014

Message to Scotland: you can keep the Queen but not the Pound

Beyond a Channel far far away...

The twists and turns of the Scottish referendum on independence have been a source of amusement to the K-Landnews and - unsurprisingly - a source of boredom for the German media, well, mostly.

As mutts with families spanning many countries and a couple of continents, we regard international borders as a nuisance to put up with and as the one occasion on which we take a look at that passport photo of our former self with a mixture of curiosity and disgust.

At the same time, we look at independence requests with a sympathetic why not?

Why shouldn't Scotland be an independent country?

[Insert hundreds of years of acrimony and bloodshed here]

As a vote on Scotland's independence draws closer, we marvel at the noises out of London. Yes, you can keep the Queen as your head of state, but no, you cannot keep the British Pound.

This was followed by the admonishment: And don't even think about joining the EU, you'll have to re-apply.

Well, it is going to be interesting.

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