{"id":774,"date":"2014-02-17T08:18:47","date_gmt":"2014-02-17T08:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/referendum\/?p=774"},"modified":"2018-07-06T14:37:23","modified_gmt":"2018-07-06T14:37:23","slug":"getting-to-maybe-currency-debt-and-the-pre-negotiation-of-independence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/referendum\/getting-to-maybe-currency-debt-and-the-pre-negotiation-of-independence\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting to Maybe: Currency, Debt, and the Pre-negotiation of Independence"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Professor Christine Bell, University of Edinburgh<\/p><\/div>\n

Writing at the Future of the UK and Scotland blog, Christine Bell reflects on whether the Chancellor’s speech represents pre-negotiation and what that might mean for the campaign.<\/em><\/p>\n

The UK government up until now has clearly stated that it is not going to \u2018pre-negotiate\u2019 the break up of the Union.\u00a0 Yet to-day apparently the UK Chancellor George Osborne, along with support from the Labour party, is to rule out in advance a currency union.<\/p>\n

In response the Scottish government has raised that they have a card to play: a possible refusal to take on a share of the UK\u2019s national debt.<\/p>\n

So what is going on?\u00a0 Well it would seem a few polls are showing that support for independence may be on the rise.\u00a0 As a consequence it looks as if the no campaign that had adopted a tactical posture of a relaxed \u2018let Scotland decide\u2019, is shifting towards playing hard-ball \u2013 corporate chiefs, the Head of the Bank of England and now the Chancellor and all future UK Chancellors are all being sent to Edinburgh, and the Prime Minister has instructed the rest of the UK to face north and feel loving feelings.\u00a0 The Scottish government is wheeling out its best cannons in response.<\/p>\n

There are several reasons why the new turn towards pre-negotiation is unfortunate and should be publicly resisted.<\/p>\n

Read the rest at The Future of the UK and Scotland<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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