Workingman wrote:Alex Salmond is right to ask for an inquiry over the leak of sensitive market information by a Treasury source to the BBC.
However, is he right to "Got to war" or "Open up a war of word" or "Clash" with the BBC as the newspaper headlines say? It might feel good for him to get it off his chest, but it does not change the message of why the banks might move their legal domiciles to London.
Salmond is only pi$$ed because he was severely heckled by Nick Robinson for completely ducking the bank question at his conference yesterday.
Anyway, there will be a flight of both cash and jobs south of the border, that goes without saying. 9,000 jobs at HMRC Cumbernauld alone. And nobody in their right mind will want to leave their funds in a newly-formed, financially-unstable country. I'll certainly be cashing in my currently Scottish-based bonds if there's a yes vote and the companies concerned don't split their business and holdings between the countries, and I'm sure I won't be the only one south of the border to do that.
The currency union will not happen - no way will rUK guarantee Scotland's future finances with no say on policy and no taxes. I'm quite sure the English people will not wear it, let alone the politicians, and I'm pleased to see that Farage has said he would fight the 2015 election on that principle. That'll concentrate LibLabCon minds.
And some good points made by George Galloway last night and this morning. Never thought I'd ever say that!