Originally Posted by
LeopardBear
Scotland, population-wise, is the size of Denmark and would have the advantage of substantial oil reserves, so it's completely a viable country in an objective sense. Bigger problem is they're totally fucked on currency: the Yes campaign is saying they want to have a currency union with the UK after independence, which the UK has already said they're going to respond to with "fuck off" because if you wanted the Pound you should have stayed in. The plan B after that is to just use the Pound anyways without an official agreement, but to put a long argument short, the Euro should have shown everyone that a monetary union without fiscal union is a really bad deal for the smaller parties, and if you have a fiscal union the entire point of Scots independence is basically null.