Originally Posted by westendlass (Post 1055188)

Scottish money already looks foreign anyway. Try spending a fiver /tenner in any shops round here, you end up being eyed suspiciously as if your trying to off load counterfeit cash. It has been known to be refused by wary shopkeepers.

Originally Posted by jaysay (Post 1055196)

Think they haven't caught up with us yet, nearly sure they still pound notes too

Originally Posted by westendlass (Post 1055188)

Scottish money already looks foreign anyway. Try spending a fiver /tenner in any shops round here, you end up being eyed suspiciously as if your trying to off load counterfeit cash. It has been known to be refused by wary shopkeepers.

Originally Posted by cashman (Post 1055200)

I was refused .

Originally Posted by jaysay (Post 1055196)

Think they haven't caught up with us yet, nearly sure they still pound notes too

Originally Posted by maxthecollie (Post 1055220)

Pound notes have not been used north of the border fro quite some time now.

Originally Posted by jaysay (Post 1055196)

Think they haven't caught up with us yet, nearly sure they still pound notes too

Originally Posted by accyman (Post 1055266)

id actually like to see the return of teh pound note i never saw the point or need for a £1 coin

mind you with a new higher value coin it meant payment meters could charge you double the money than the previous highest value coin 50p ;)

Originally Posted by GEaston (Post 1055175)

I don't think keeping the pound should even be an option for them. Its not their currency.

What bugs me about the whole debate is that the Scots seem to think they can have some sort of pic n mix taking the good but not the bad. I've even heard them talking about not taking their share of the national debt (which by population is GBP 126 billion).

The greater question for me is are we getting a refund for paying for the Royal Bank of Scotland? That's a Scottish HQ bank, with an entirely Scottish board that went bust to the tune of GBP 45 billion and counting. The British had to bail that out because 45 billion represents the ENTIRE Scottish annual budget! I could go on and talk about bailouts to the Bank of Scotland which add another 10bn or so. All very well talking about splits of oil revenue etc but we footed the bill for their banking collapse and that was far larger than Scotland could ever pay for.

I vote them out, say they take their 126bn share of national debt + 50bn for their collapsed banks and see how they get on. After that the country will look like a poor version of Cyprus.

Originally Posted by accyman (Post 1055266)

id actually like to see the return of teh pound note i never saw the point or need for a £1 coin

mind you with a new higher value coin it meant payment meters could charge you double the money than the previous highest value coin 50p ;)

Originally Posted by westendlass (Post 1055278)

I agree. Made you feel richer than you actually were. Could look like you had a wad of cash for twenty quid.

Originally Posted by jaysay (Post 1055345)

Once remember finding a ten bob note on my way to school and handed it in to the teacher, who said if nobody claimed it I could have half and the other half would go to the St Vincent De Paul society, never handed out in again:D