James Cook
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first heard Mar 2025
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a two option which was indeed yeah should Scotland A remain part of the United Kingdom or B leave the United Kingdom and become an independent country.
It wasn't that either so yeah they'd the yes side, the S and P definitely thought they'd won the argument on the question.
I mean they did Yeah
Yeah, and and and he did and he gambled and he won and then he gambled on the EU referendum and he lost.
Um so you know, perhaps would he have would he have been so confident about Brexit without the the the success as he saw it from his perspective in the in the independence referendum of Scotland?
I don't know.
It's a
I think that's right.
Yeah, definitely.
I mean, I should have brought it in.
There's one, there's one out at the desk.
There's one, there's one out in the newsstream still in a drawer.
More than one, probably.
But it was chunky, chunky, thick document.
And yeah, I think they thought we need to say we have thought of everything.
And here is everything we have thought of in a very thick tone.
The problem with that was, inevitably, you couldn't answer every
Single question about precisely what an independent Scotland could look like as the Yes campaign acknowledged themselves.
And therefore, in producing a document that sort of purported to do so, while you were also acknowledging that you couldn't, because there would be uncertainty and there would be negotiations and the international money markets and various others would have a part to play, meant that it was picked apart endlessly.
And I don't think they would do that again, Lorna.
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