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Bill introduced to force all businesses in the UK to accept Scottish banknotes

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stonej

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Jan 25, 2009, 9:48:30 PM1/25/09
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Bob Golden

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Jan 26, 2009, 11:43:32 AM1/26/09
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Why should English businesses be forced to accept foreign money?


RWF

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Jan 26, 2009, 1:39:59 PM1/26/09
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"Bob Golden" <Nob...@Nobodycares.com> wrote in message
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> Why should English businesses be forced to accept foreign money?

You really are a twit.

Paul Ciszek

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Jan 26, 2009, 4:23:23 PM1/26/09
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In article <lFmfl.24293$B01....@newsfe13.iad>,

Bob Golden <Nob...@Nobodycares.com> wrote:
>Why should English businesses be forced to accept foreign money?

Why should Scottish citizen be required to pay taxes to a foreign
government, serve in its wars, etc.?

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note.boy

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Jan 26, 2009, 5:24:50 PM1/26/09
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"Bob Golden" <Nob...@Nobodycares.com> wrote in message
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> Why should English businesses be forced to accept foreign money?
>

You have no idea how many in Scotland yearn for the day that to the English
Scottish notes are actually foreign.

I consider English notes to be foreign but unfortunately this is not yet the
official situation. Billy

note.boy

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Jan 26, 2009, 5:28:12 PM1/26/09
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"Paul Ciszek" <nos...@nospam.com> wrote in message
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You are correct that Scots are citizens but the English are subjects.

"Debates" about Scotland/England can be never ending, a bit like politics
and religion, you have been warned. :-) Billy


Mr. Jaggers

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Jan 26, 2009, 5:31:31 PM1/26/09
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If and when that came about, wouldn't the U.K. then be known as just the K.?

James


note.boy

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Jan 26, 2009, 5:38:19 PM1/26/09
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"Mr. Jaggers" <lugburzman[at]yahoo[dot]com> wrote in message
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It could become the Disunited Kingdom, or D.K. Billy


RWF

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Jan 26, 2009, 5:42:42 PM1/26/09
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"Mr. Jaggers" <lugburzman[at]yahoo[dot]com> wrote in message
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What about Wales and Northern Ireland?

Mr. Jaggers

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Jan 26, 2009, 5:50:13 PM1/26/09
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I was going to append Northern Ireland to my inquiry, but then seem to
remember that it was the 1707 Act of Union that joined the Kingdom of
Scotland and the Kingdom of England. I'm uncertain as to the status of
Ireland at that time.

I think Wales had been already hopelessly welded to England long before that
date.

I will, however, defer to historian Billy for verification of all this.

James


Michael G. Koerner

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Jan 26, 2009, 9:48:12 PM1/26/09
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Don't worry, with the way things are going, in a few years they'll all be
using Euros anyway....

<ducks and runs!!!>

(hehehehehe)

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Mr. Jaggers

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Jan 26, 2009, 10:04:24 PM1/26/09
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We're from Londinium, and we are not amused! 8>)

James III


Aladdin Sane

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Jan 26, 2009, 10:36:37 PM1/26/09
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There is still the matter of Wales and Northern Ireland

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som...@some.domain

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Jan 26, 2009, 11:47:08 PM1/26/09
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maybe the disgruntled union?

som...@some.domain

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Jan 26, 2009, 11:48:45 PM1/26/09
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what about the grand duchy of fenwick?

Mr. Jaggers

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Jan 27, 2009, 2:05:47 AM1/27/09
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They won.

James


som...@some.domain

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Jan 27, 2009, 3:14:09 AM1/27/09
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glad i saved my confederate money.

note.boy

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Jan 27, 2009, 5:18:49 AM1/27/09
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"Mr. Jaggers" <lugburzman[at]yahoo[dot]com> wrote in message
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The UK is the United Kingdom of Great Britain (Scotland, Wales and England)
and Northern Ireland. Billy


note.boy

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Jan 27, 2009, 5:19:39 AM1/27/09
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"Michael G. Koerner" <mgk...@dataex.com> wrote in message
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The way the banking system is teetering at the moment you may not be wrong.
Billy


Bob Golden

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Jan 27, 2009, 6:35:54 AM1/27/09
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"note.boy" <note...@naespamntlworld.com> wrote in > The way the banking
system is teetering at the moment you may not be wrong.
> Billy
>
>

What? With the British taxpayer being the major stakeholder in Royal Bank
of Scotland group, would appear to me as though Scottish banking upended and
surrendered to the English me thinks.

How could 280+ year old institutions which operated so conservatively for so
long be caught in this mix? They should be ashamed, and the directors shot.


note.boy

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Jan 27, 2009, 4:42:05 PM1/27/09
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"Bob Golden" <Nob...@Nobodycares.com> wrote in message
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Deregulation by the Government was the problem, if banks had remained as
banks and building societies as building societies they would not have got
into this mess. Getting credit was ludicrously easy, and not just in the
UK.

It's not possible to run a country based on service and financial services
but unfortunately Margaret Thatcher was convinced that it was and she
destroyed the coal mines and many engineering and manufacturing businesses
in the UK. Billy


stonej

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Jan 27, 2009, 9:31:24 PM1/27/09
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According to USA Today the UK is in worse shape than the US in the
current economic crisis because of the
way their banking system is structured.

I watch reruns of the Prime Ministers question time on C-SPAN Sunday
nights and find it highly entertaining
seeing Gordon Brown on the hotseat. Nothing like this in the US
congress.

David Cameron cracks me up when he gets into his usual "will he not
admit......." spiel. :)

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