Wings over Scotlands fake propaganda attempting to misinform on Scottish Law

 If you didn't previously understand  Wings over Scotland was anything other than a fake propaganda blog feeding misinformation to its readers then this should help you finally to see the light. https://archive.is/Tatlc  

Wings can be seen here desperately trying to falsely sell the idea that Craig Murray was unjustly Jailed on some sort of invented crime of "Jigsaw Identification" which however is a charge wholly invented by Wings himself as the actual crime Craig Murray was Jailed for was in fact "Contempt of Court." alone. The fact this assertion made by Wings is untrue we should assume until actually proven otherwise that lots of his other assertions on the Prison Services treatment of Craig Murray in the same blog are also potentially untrue as well because anyone would be a complete utter fool believing anything written on a propaganda blog without finding other external factual sources to back them up. 

A full summary of the whole Court Case proceedings against Craig Murray can be seen on the Scottish Courts Document link provided  and can be clearly seen to be for "Contempt of Court" not for Wings own invented crime of "Jigsaw Identification".  While reading the whole text is an eye opening experience on the whole case a shorter summary if chosen could be read within pages 36-42 of it. 

https://www.scotcourts.gov.uk/docs/default-source/cos-general-docs/pdf-docs-for-opinions/2021hcj002.pdf?fbclid=IwAR2BECuq6OluW_Fd_2zDDexAu6Xh_6MTwtdhKiiKo7altQJmMRsdiuZpQb4

The Guardian Newspaper also laid out the Contempt of Court charges in an article.       "Lady Dorrian, Scotland’s second most senior judge, said Murray’s offences were so serious and deliberate he deserved imprisonment, despite a plea from his lawyer that the 62-year-old was too infirm to go to jail, and had a young family. She said his repeated breaches, which included refusing to take down the blogposts despite legal warnings from the Crown Office, were a “contempt of considerable gravity”.  His actions “strike at the heart of the fair administration of justice”, she added."Sitting with Lords Turnbull and Menzies, Dorrian, the lord justice clerk, said Murray’s actions had not only risked identifying four complainers but could also frighten rape complainers, the Scottish legal term for complainants, from stepping forward in future, particularly in high-profile cases involving powerful defendants.

Several of Murray’s followers said they had identified complainers as a result of his blogposts, yet he continued to keep them online.

Murray “understood the risk inherent in the action he was taking, deliberately decided to run that risk knowing that jigsaw identification of the complainers might result, and did so repeatedly. It appears from the posts and articles that he was in fact relishing the task he set himself.”

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/may/11/former-ambassador-craig-murray-jailed-for-alex-salmond-case-blogposts

So while Wings continues to try to flog the already dead Horse that Craig Murray is a completely innocent  man unjustly jailed we can see from the Legal court Summary and other published articles that Craig Murray in truth set out to aid the identification of accusers in a court trial despite a court order being already in place to protect those accusers identities.

Craig Murray was aware a protection order was in place yet at no point did he appear to care of the implications of exposing accusers names or for their safety.

Craig Murray chose his course of action knowing the risks and doesn't appear to have given a thought either for the implications of his deliberate actions for his own later protestations of  poor Health or for the wellbeing of his own Wife and young Children while jailed, but only after his conviction did these considerations come into any sort of play which would suggest Craig Murray might not give much of a damn about anyone but himself in truth in many peoples eyes and later on was merely trying act the part the wounded party instead. 

If Wings invented propaganda trying to portray Craig Murray as an innocent man is beyond the pale then how did so many of his faithful but equally clueless fan club still fall for his  propaganda Wee Blue Book on Scottish Independence which rather than being "full of useful facts " which were actually based on already out of date Scottish Government 2011-2012 GERS financial figures when later Scottish Government 2012-2013 GERS data (which also included a £1.2Bn downgrade to the earlier numbers) were already available to him to use at the time of publication instead ?  Its estimated that approx £300K was raised from crowdfunding to print and distribute the Wee Blue Book which when based on already out of date financial numbers in the first place was a complete waste of so many peoples hard earned cash but as an act of probable fake propaganda on the wider Nationalist movement itself was something of a masterstroke (depending on your point of view) and if it was only fit for the dustbin in 2013 then it isn't worth even a passing look for "facts" at todays date when another 8 years of newer Scot Gov figures now exist. If anyone is in doubt of the value of the Wee Blue Book all you have to do is to look and see what year of GERS it uses and the much later date the WBB was published. 

More information on and errors from the Wee Blue Book debunked here  https://chokkablog.blogspot.com/2015/10/wings-and-his-wee-blue-book-of-errors.html

and here https://chokkablog.blogspot.com/2015/10/wings-wee-blue-book-of-errors-part-ii.html

Scottish Government link showing the £1.2 Billion downward amended 2011-2012 GERS numbers published along with the 2012-2013 GERS numbers in March 2014.   https://www.gov.scot/publications/government-expenditure-revenue-scotland-2012-13/pages/11/

Date of Publication of Wee Blue Book shown here as 11 August 2014   https://wingsoverscotland.com/weebluebook/

Other links worth reading on the WBB 

https://mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2014/09/scotland-and-snp-fooling-yourselves-and.html

GERS Meeting at Holyrood including a statement from Margaret Cuthbert. 

https://youtu.be/Ee0442kULmg?t=3860

Podcast explanation of GERS from Scottish Parliaments own Economic Advisors 

  https://fraserofallander.org/gers-2020-socially-distance-yourself-from-the-myths-and-furore/

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Everything you ever wanted to know about the GERS numbers is here .

 Why should Scots be able to trust the GERS numbers which are Scotlands financial accounts and published on the Worldwide Internet ?

The above question is partly self answering , why would the SNP Scot Gov allow publication of economic numbers on the Worldwide Internet for the leaders of any Country of any Government in the World to see for themselves if they were not reliable truthful numbers ? Allowing the publication of false numbers would mean any Government allowing that wouldn't be taken seriously and there are no Senior Members of the SNP dispute the GERS numbers are not already 100% reliable. 

The Video link given below here shows the SNP's long associated Economist Margaret Cuthbert , Richard Murphy and other Scottish MSP's at a Holyrood Committee Meeting in 2017 , Cuthbert makes clear here she spent years checking the numbers and being involved in updating GERS to make them as accurate as possible, she also says the SNP has its own Group that makes changes to the GERS numbers. 

Margaret Cuthbert, Richard Murphy and Scottish MSP's at Holyrood Meeting on GERS Video Here

Here is a Podcast and  published Website articles on how both UK and Scotlands economics works from the Economics Dept of Strathclyde University here.

Podcast : Strathclyde University GERS Podcast  (Worth listening to)

How the Scotland inside the UK Economic model currently works Scotlands economy in the UK 

Guide to understanding the GERS Report from Strathclyde University GERS Guide 2020 

More on the accuracy of GERS & "Confidence Levels" GERS Accuracy & Confidence levels

"Back to School for GERS", what the numbers mean ,who makes them and some commentary on the numbers from 2019. Back to School for GERS 2019  

Wikpedia Link to "Who are Fraser of Allander at Strathclyde University" which includes the statement "The director of the institute is Professor Graeme Roy, a former Senior Economic Adviser and head of the First Minister's Policy Unit under Nicola Sturgeon."  Who are Fraser of Allander ?

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The Scottish Government GERS report 2020 can be found on the Scottish Government website here Government Expenditure and Revenue Scotland (GERS) 2019-2020 - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)   which shows that for the financial year 

2019-2020  Scotland spent £81bn (seen in Table S.5)  but raised less from ALL Scotlands own Tax Revenues at £65.8bn (seen in Table S.3) which means an overspend of approx £15bn. 

By scrolling down the lower half of the linked page the Scottish Government also provides some commonly asked Questions and Answers ..a few of them coped to here.

"Q: Who produces GERS?

A: GERS is produced by Scottish Government statisticians. It is designated as a National Statistics product, which means that it is produced independently of Scottish Ministers and has been assessed by the UK Statistics Authority as being produced in line with the Code of Practice for Statistics. This means the statistics have been found to meet user needs, to be methodologically sound, explained well and produced free of political interference.

Q: Do you use company headquarters to assign corporation tax or taxes like VAT?

A: No. Corporation tax on trading profits is estimated on a company-by-company basis, depending on the economic activity each company has in Scotland, not location of company headquarters. VAT is a consumption tax, and is therefore estimated based on purchases that are made in Scotland, rather than the location of a company’s head office.

Q: How do taxes from the whisky industry feature in the GERS estimates?

A: Like any industry, the whisky industry’s activity in Scotland generates tax revenue through a range of sources, such as corporation tax on profits, income tax and national insurance contributions on staff earnings, and non-domestic rates payments on business premises. These are all captured in the estimates of Scottish public sector receipts reported in GERS.

In addition, whisky consumed in the UK is subject to VAT and alcohol duty. This is assigned to Scotland on the basis of how much is consumed in Scotland. Whisky which is exported does not generate UK VAT or alcohol duty. There is no export duty in the UK.

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The Scottish Government also produce another page on Question and Answers on Scottish Exports including this one which is often used to deliberately misinform people 

Scottish Government Scottish Exports Questions and Answers

Are Scottish goods which are exported via ports from the rest of the UK counted as international Scottish exports?

Yes. The ESS publication measures the destination of goods exported from Scotland regardless of the port from which they leave the UK.

How are Scotch Whisky exports treated?

All international exports relevant to Scotch Whisky are counted as Scottish exports, irrespective of the port at which they depart the UK. The data is sourced from the HMRC Overseas Trade Statisitcs report.

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As it isn't everyone who can easily understand complicated financial reports there is an easier and simpler explanation  of one single years GERS figures for 2018-2019 here , it is fully cross referenced to the Scottish Governments own website numbers so that you can doublecheck and verify  the information given for yourself.

2018-2019 GERS figures simply explained here   

The follow up to that article can be found here and is also worth a read What GERS can and cannot tell us

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Along with the debunking of the "Whisky Export Taxes" and "Scottish Goods through English Ports"  misinformation revealed on the Scottish Governments own website earlier there are others that can be easily exposed as being completely deliberate fraudulent lies. 

"Scotland pays for Londons New Sewer System "  This one is another deliberate Lie spread around many places by Nationalist Fake propagandists of which this is only one of many versions.

This is only one of hundreds of fake invented memes by Yes Scotland and you would be a complete fool to beleive any of them they are only produced to deceive.

 This one though called the London Tideway Tunnel has information on it on Thames Water companies own Website and reveals the only people paying for it will be its own customers alone. Who will pay for London Tideway new Sewer ? Just another one of the hundreds of Nationalist Lies used to deliberately misinform other Scottish people, ask yourself seriously why they need to do that ?

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With the Holyrood election now coming in May new Nationalist fake propagandists have started to appear already.

Making the false claim Scotland is paying Billions for HS2 , the actual truth published by the Scottish Government that can be found online in their own published accounts added up to £131 million in a whole 5 years. More information on this Lie can be found on this link here Nationalist HS2 propaganda lies

If Scottish Independence is such a good thing why do so many Nationalits organisations spend so much of their time deliberately lying to Scotland ? It's almost as if they are afraid to campaign honestly ?

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Another wholesale producer of Nationalist fake propaganda memes is " Business For Scotland" and its sister propaganda unit  "Beleive in Scotland "  which are both filled with exactly the same invented meaningless propaganda produced by one Gordon McInytre Kemp.

So how do we know this is just rubbish ? Well for a start it simply asserts this is fact a without actually showing us where the evidence comes from or whether its even real or even matters. This is a common theme with all Nationalist memes, you are just simply to swallow they are truthful without any evidence to prove that they actually are (and you can bet they are NOT)  This one is basically a play on Scotlands Oil Revenues which Scotland produces large volumes of in the past but we know the future of Oil Revenues is not going to be good as we move to an electric vehicle future. Although Oil Revenues produce large Sales Volume Value it also costs an awful lot to get out the ground and to refine which means the actual profits from Oil are pretty small as a fraction of the Sales value,  on top of these very slim profits the Scottish Government only gets Taxes on Oil producers so Kemps attempts at trying to bullshit people with fake propaganda memes like this actually don't mean very much at all and so  Business For Scotland and Beleive in Scotland are better ignored for their fake propaganda is worthless, better to get real numbers from Scottish Governments own website and other verifiable sources than from fake propaganda outfits like these. 

More information on Business for Scotland, its fake propagandists and debunked articles are available here  Stop getting GERS wrong  and here The big lie about Scotlands Oil  and here Who Do Business for Scotland Represent ?

Another recent push of nefarious invented propaganda seen below here , all of this stuff is just regurgitated meaningless rubbish that was also being circulated during Indyref in 2014 and is just the same pitiful misinformation attempt but put through a "rinse and repeat redesign cycle" for new "useful idiots" to swallow. Are you going to be one of them ?   All this sort of stuff was debunked years ago elsewhere and can still be found on this link. The big Meaningless list 

Of course all they want you to do is "Beleive "  and don't dare actually take ten minutes  to think for yourself and investigate whether you are just the target of a Con trick deliberately trying to mislead Scots Voters on the realistic size of real economic numbers that the Scottish Government already publish elsewhere themselves.  The big Meaningless list . The Scottish Government publishes details of  how it collects actual real Tax Revenues from any profits companies make from all of these items , ita ONLY taxes collected from company profits that really matters and how that is done can be found here. Open the document and scroll down for the full list of items th Scottish Government collects tax revenues from.

SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT DETAILED REVENUE METHODOLOGY PAPER 2019-20

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Another good source for finding debunking of Nationalist fake memes can be found here 

A year on and some crap about the Vow  

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So the after all this information , the really important question again is, if Independence for Scotland is supposedly so good then why do Nationalists organisations spend so much of their time deliberately trying to lie to other Scots voters about it with so much invented fake garbage ? Especially so when they spend so much of their time actually trying to rubbish the factual financial numbers their very OWN SNP Scottish Government produces itself and publishes to the whole World already ? 

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The SNP simply doesn't believe in real true democracy but actually believes in minority rule.

I found this article today that holds many quotes that ring true with me about the SNP and what i feel are is its singular simplistic pursuit of political Power for only its own leaders benefit in pursuing a Single Party State (not that uncommon with Natzism too wasn't it ?) while saying it pursues "Pro Business" policies and yet claiming it is a "grassroots" party "led by the people for the people" there are many i think would would consider the two statements there an oxymoron in their own right. Interesting words quoted here though in reference to a book by David Torrance which clearly demonstates the hprocrisy of the SNP where the party's own leaders often state restrictions and vetoes that they want to impose on other organisations ideas that it actually opposes being applied to similar policies of its own...the SNP is duplicious and self-serving yet likes to promote itself (in its own inward looking eyes) as "progressive", it's leaders cannot see their own hyprocrisy in their own observable and widespread behaviour.

"Ms Sturgeon has proposed that Scotland (or Wales or Northern Ireland) should be able to veto a majority vote in an EU referendum. But she applies that only vetoing a vote to leave; she doesn’t want anyone to veto a vote to stay in. Torrance argues against that idea. He claims that’s the same logic as if England, Scotland or Wales should have had a veto over the Scottish vote in the 2014 referendum.
But surely the point is that no part of the whole has the right to overrule the whole. No minority has the right to veto a majority decision. Democrats believe in majority rule; the SNP believes in minority rule. The whole British people have the right to decide the major constitutional questions of national unity and national independence, whether we are to stay united or be divided and whether we are to be in the EU or not.
As a nation we believe that an overall majority of the votes cast across Britain as a whole should decide whether we leave the EU. In March 2015 a survey by a team from Edinburgh University found that people across the UK oppose Sturgeon’s call for multiple vetoes on a British exit from the EU. Clear majorities in England (68 per cent), Northern Ireland (60 per cent), Wales (64 per cent) and Scotland (55 per cent) disagree with the Scottish first minister.
Sturgeon and Salmond have constantly asserted that “Constitutional referendums are once-in-a-generation events.” So SNP policy is that we have no right to have a referendum on the EU. It thinks that the 1975 referendum was too recent to be repeated.
However, Sturgeon and the SNP believe that the 2014 Scottish referendum is not too recent to be repeated as soon as next year. The SNP has not ruled out promising another referendum in its manifesto for the Scottish parliamentary election of May 2016. If the SNP won that election, it could call another referendum before the end of 2016.
A generation is a short time in SNP politics.

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Press censorship and paranioa now exists in Scotland, a pitiful sign for Scotlands future

Press censorship has begun in Scotland , how long till the Black Shirts are seen on the streets ?
http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2016/10/press-censorship-begun-scotland/ 
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BBC conspiracy bias is a Nationalist delusion
http://stv.tv/news/politics/1361970-nicola-sturgeon-must-tackle-anti-media-paranoia-in-snp-says-andrew-collier/
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Yes Campaign Chief says BBC referendum coverage was not biased 
http://stv.tv/news/politics/294071-yes-campaign-chief-says-bbc-referendum-coverage-was-not-biased/



http://m.heraldscotland.com/politics/14692107.Journalist__quot_gagged_quot__by_broadcaster_after_pressure_from_SNP/ 

Despite the SNP apparently not enjoying too much being compared to the Facists of the past the SNP's leader Sturgeon today made another jackbooted step forwards in trying to exert absolute control of the SNP's hoped for Single Party State in Scotland despite the Nation itself voting a clear NO in the Independence Referendum in September 2014.
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The "Dear Leader" (not) of the SNP cult seperatist political party today tried to make out she is speaking for all of the Scots nation when attempting to wrest control of BBC Scotland and its assets away from National control and into the SNP's grubby interfering, indoctrinising and controlling hands.

As with most would be Dictators she too knows that control over a countries media would allow you to brainwash, indocrinate and run roughshod over the will of a nation, whether or not the controlling Political Party ever won a mandate to do so or not at the Ballot box. This must be stopped for sake of Scotland and its nation, enough is enough, there are enough failures within Scottish Government alreadly without allowing this too happen as well.

SNP Seperatist Party Control of the BBC Scotland must be avoided at all costs ..why is it that Political Parties that don't like being called Fascists behave like...well Fascists really ? Have they become so blinded by their own ideaology that they can't see what their own actions actually is the real behaviour of ?

This is yet another example of the SNP attacking something it loathes to try to gain power and control over something whenever it doesn't get it's own political free will, the SNP bullied, blamed ,attacked and criticised the BBC and its Journalists throughout both the whole Independence and General Election Campaign's. Just because BBC Scotland doesn't become your puppet and agree with and publicise the SNP parties political propaganda for its own ends doesn't mean that it is the enemy to be worked over until submission to be used as a Seperatist Party Political tool.
Just because the SNP Seperatist Political Party tries to assert that the BBC is biased against it, that does not mean that it is actually fact ! The SNP has an obvious self interest in trying to spread this accusation for its own political ends.

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Some examples of why the SNP must never be allowed to interfere or gain control of the BBC in Scotland

Lord Steel of Aikenwood said broadcasters have told him that “SNP heavies” contact them so regularly trying to influence their coverage that it is verging on “intimidation”.

He said he has also been informed the Nationalists make more complaints to journalist news rooms than all the other political parties combined.

The former Liberal leader and Scottish Parliament presiding officer delivered the extraordinary attack during a House of Lords debate on the Government’s plans to devolve new powers to Holyrood.
more info see.... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/9111652/Lord-Steel-compares-Scotland-to-SNP-totalitarian-state.html
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Scotland's previous First Minister Alex Salmond compared Ric Bailey, the corporation's chief political adviser (CPA) in London, to a Nazi bureaucrat for vetoing an appearance as a pundit ahead of the Calcutta Cup rugby match on February 4 in which England beat Scotland.

He complained he had been booked by Carl Hicks, editor of BBC TV Sport, but the corporation made it clear that the first contact came from the First Minister.

The SNP leader had also tried to feature in BBC Scotland’s rugby coverage and to set up an interview for himself on Radio Five Live.

The BBC said it rejected all three offers as the match was “not an appropriate setting” for Mr Salmond to appear if the corporation was to retain its neutrality, especially given the current debate over independence.

Mr Salmond called Mr Bailey a "gauleiter", a Nazi Party regional leader, and accused the corporation of acting like a “tinpot dictatorship”.
A similar suggestion that the First Minister might take part in BBC Radio Scotland's rugby coverage had already been declined. Radio Five Live also turned down the offer of an interview with the First Minister following advice from the CPA.”
Ruth Davidson, the Scottish Tory leader, said: "So, now it appears that the BBC is a 'tinpot dictatorship' populated by 'gauleiters' simply for saying no to the First Minister as he shamelessly hawks himself from programme to programme demanding unfettered access to the nation's airwaves."
John Park, Labour MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, said: "The SNP had us believe that an invitation from the BBC had been withdrawn. Now it transpires that it was actually Alex Salmond who demanded to get his face on the TV in the first place.Our national broadcaster is not there to give him free publicity.” For more information see http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/scotland/9071523/Alex-Salmond-tried-three-times-to-gatecrash-BBCs-Six-Nations-party.html
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An SNP "Scottish" Currency Lie ? : Hiding the True Facts and Dangers of an Indy "Yes" vote ?

An SNP "Scottish" Currency Lie ? Hiding the real facts and Dangers behind an Indy "Yes" Vote ?

The SNP's insistence on its Indy Manifesto fronted by its head illusionist Alex Salmond that the "Scottish Pound " would be the currency if Scots voted for Independence was merely a "smoke and mirrors "untruthful attempt to instil the idea in Scots voters minds that Voting for Independence would mean that very little would really change apart from not having a Tory Government in Scotland any more and that Scots lives would stay much the same or even improve from what had been beforehand.

The truth is really that it was for one reason only and that was to stop Scots thinking for themselves of what other real unmentioned situations might come to pass and to stop them from even questioning the SNP's manifesto for Independence as being in any way whatsoever "risky" , "reckless" or " unwanted " in their own lives.

Salmond can claim of course he wasn't actually blatantly lying at the time because immediately after the Indy Referendum in the event of a "YES" vote the currency would by default still been the Pound, but thats where the story ends.

With the splitting up of UK assets between two Sovereign nations both parts required 2 basic things :-
1: An individual currency, and 2 : A powerful "national bank of last resort "

The reasons for this are that any government with its own fiscal budget and individual political policies regarding taxation and welfare spending programmes needs to be able to control its own fundraising (ie its own Goverment bonds issued in Financial markets), its own interest rate and the control of the supply of its own currency in circulation.

What you cannot ever have is two completely seperate European Governments of two Independent sovereign nations with different Political viewpoints running two completely different Fiscal spending plans , different Welfare policies and differing Taxation plans with one shared currency that only one country has responsibility for maintaining the stability of . That is only a recipe for disaster beacuse it would allow the other country to hold the other one to ransom or run the other into ruin by introducing poor taxation , spending plans and taking on loans in the money markets that could destroy the value of a currency in the money markets that they themselves have absolutely no responsibility for maintaining, it simply would never work.

Of course Alex Salmond knows this very well too and certainly knows also that two countries CAN share a currency but one would have to hand over sovereignty to the other that actually owns the currency to manage overall Fiscal policy and Currency control and that the actual solution already has a name "Devolution Max" so when the SNP were campaigning for "Independence" was this what the SNP really had in mind throughout the whole process if the Statement to share the pound was really a truthful one ?

More info on this issue here http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-miles/memo-to-alex-salmond-inde_b_5074697.html

There were another couple of options the SNP could have adopted but of course were not discussed at all with the Nation most probably as one was unworkable and very costly even if physically possible and the other one would have been deeply unpopular with Voters and would no doubt have returned a clear NO vote on Independence.

Other than Devo Max the second option would have been a completely new currency (with its own exchange rate) and while this is a "real" option on the table it really would have been too ridiculous to contemplate, it would have meant Scots having to exchange money while crossing the border going out the country (even to England) and vice versa when anyone came into Scotland. It would be another problem for Tourists coming to the UK having to have carry two different currencies to vist England and Scotland and probably would hit the Tourist industry in both as many Tourists may just find it simpler just to go to Europe instead (visit multiple countries and use one currency only). A new currency would also create more red tape for Industries both in Scotland and all its trading partners and reduce Competitiveness and Profits by increasing costs (due to currency conversion costs). So therefore a complete non-starter and would be quickly ruled out.

The Third and most likely the very real SNP unspoken and unwitten plan if it truly wasn't lying to Voters that it had wanted "Devo Max" rather than true and real Independence can only have been a plan to adopt the Euro as the "new" Scottish currency, the reasons for this is that it would solve two of the SNP's biggest problems at a stroke.
1: It would provide the large established and powerful European Central Bank as the Scottish "Bank of Last Resort".
2: An available and widely used Currency , the European Bank alreadly owns the Euro, an existing currency that already is used widely in Europe, already traded on the World money markets and alreadly accepted all over the World for International Business transactions.

George Soros's view on a Scottish Currency http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/scottish-independence/10692558/George-Soros-Scotland-sharing-the-pound-after-independence-is-impossible.html

Another Youtube Video presentation on options for "A Scottish Currency" is here ...while viewing this video its very important to remember clearly what has happened to interest rates in Russia and other countries that have and are dependent on Oil as large parts of their GDP , Government budgets and therefore spending plans for their nations. World Financial commodity shocks can and do cause countries to have long periods of high interest rates to protect their currencies which has been implications for Mortgage holders https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBC0mLFz91o

So what "evidence" exists that the real unspoken and unpublished plan that the SNP had for Scotland's New currency all along in fact was the Euro all the time ?

1: Well the SNP has said all along that Rejoining the EU would be a priority for it and all other recent new membership Countries of the EU have had to adopt the Euro as a Currency as well, this is a very unpopular issue with Voters in Poland but they wanted to join the EU and were simply not allowed to join without signing up to adopt the Euro as part of that sign-up. (They have agreed to change to the Euro when some of the debt issues in the EU have been resolved)
see here for more info
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poland_and_the_euro

2: Is there evidence that the SNP itelf has shown as Policy willingness to adopt the Euro ? Well yes there is , the SNP is very pro-EU and sees further integration with Europe as the future. In a past speech to the European Centre for Policy Studies Alex Salmond speaking as leader of the SNP not only supported Scotland joining the Euro but actually attacked the pound that he tried to say Scotland would keep after an Indy "YES " vote , can this man be trusted at all to ever be telling the truth ? He described the Pound as "''a millstone round Scotland's neck'' and challenged the euro's supporters to launch a more aggressive debate against the new currency's critics.
Salmond then went on to say "''I think that being outside the euro area is already penalising the Scottish economy. In the medium-term, the longer we stay out, the more damage will accumulate. The euro is an example of why Scotland needs membership status so that it can take a decision on entry into the single currency,'' and also said "'Scotland is a trading nation and our main trading partner is the EU. At present, over 60% of our manufactured exports are to the EU and it is to Europe that we must look to secure Scottish prosperity and Scottish jobs,'' he told his audience of European officials and diplomats."
See more here: http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/12207577.Salmond_in_call_to_dump_millstone_of_the_pound/

The Euro has also been highlighted as a Scottish currency at other times too.
"Alex Salmond and his ministers know there are other options, not least because they used to champion one of them.Not so long ago the Scottish National Party was a fan of the European single currency.As recently as 2009, at the SNP's annual conference in Inverness, the party's former treasurer, Ian Blackford, argued that being "tied to sterling" after independence would mean Scotland having to, "pay the price in higher interest rates while being exposed to a currency that has a history of suffering from wild fluctuations".

see more here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-26168002


So it appears that Alex Salmond was speaking with a forked tongue with the backing of the rest of the SNP while deliberately trying to deceive Voters on what any potential Scottish currency would ultimately be ? The SNP has talked down the Pound in Scotland as a currency openly in Public several times now in the past while it can also be seen that it has often said it sees the benefits of the Euro over the Pound as a currency many times.

So why was then was the SNP so afraid to put it on the Indy manifesto ? Is it simply because it knows the Scottish electorate would quickly reject that policy and return a massive "NO" vote and therefore the SNP set out a deliberate plan of deception to win a YES vote by presenting a a false and untruthful manifesto to the whole nation instead ?
What does that really say about the SNP's trustworthyness and of it's need to exert "control" over the nation by deceit ?


Of course one avenue may have been to use one of the SNP's most favoured tactics, just go ahead and offer a hugely populist but completely unrealistic plan to the electorate to gain political power and then when the "ridiculous proposal" is rejected by the rest of the UK government that your trying to divorce yourself from, you can then produce your "policy of greivance" Joker card ,blame Westminster for not accepting your own wonderfully credible original plan and use "your mandate" you say the Scottish electorate gave you to default the Scottish electorate into the deeply unpopular Euro against the will of a nation. Job done, the SNP and Alex Salmond get what they have openly wanted for years and the UK government gets the blame for it.

We know the SNP would blame the UK Government for this as everything is always the fault of Westminster and not ever the fault of the SNP.
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