@amjushere The only people that will stop watching are the Man City fans, who’ll simply find another winning club and follow them exactly the way they started following Man City.
@AScot94175440 Let’s just assume that Scotland could walk away.
1. The people that buy gilts would treat it as a default by Scotland and wouldn’t lend Scotland money at any reasonable price. They are pragmatists.
2. Shetland and Orkney would declare independence and become richer than Croesus
@Sr_Burns0232@avgiq No one wanted a dictatorship the last seven times. But it happened. Nobody in Argentina wanted a default just six years ago… but it happened.
@SpencerGuard I laud your conversation, but there is a major difference between communism (economic) and totalitarianism (political). Your explanation conflates the two.
@KulfasM “If your claim is so unquestionable, why refuse to negotiate?”
If I said that you owed me a million dollars would you be willing to negotiate with me?
@malcolm_reavell@DipsBuy If they want to issue then Treasury decides the yield but only based on market demand. If the market needs 6pc for 10bio then that is the rate that HMT needs to pay. Or, as you said, they don’t issue.
@jamesgardenman@johncwright2001 I’m backing this one too. One sailor injured. Total domination of the Indian Ocean and East Africa and associated trade routes. Economic return on zero deaths = Infinite.
@TheDiplomad@bea_johanssen@Glenn_Diesen And you worked at the State Dept?! How on earth do you have a Ceuta-style breach across an ocean where 20m waves are described as “ a bit frothy” 😂😂