It was a brilliant evening at the Princess Alexandra Hall in London SW1A 1LR; I received warm applause and compliments that I, as a foreign born member, demonstrated such thorough insight and constructive ideas about how to go forward, towards a Scottish referendum and beyond. Picking up on the breaking news yesterday of mass-downgrades within the eurozone, which membership the Scottish National Party of First Minister Salmond flirts with, I pointed out that Scottish independence would lead to an immediate downgrade by 4 notches to the level of Ireland, and cost of 10-year 'government' bonds from Edinburgh would be currently at 4.8%, nearly 3 per cent above the UK level. I also reminded the small number of Scots in the room that Scottish membership with the EU, and the eurozone, are subject to London's agreement (or veto, as is the more likely case, if peripheral negotiations should hit a snag).
The event was supposedly followed by a 30-45 minute Q&A, which in fact lasted nearly 2 hours. We finally parted at 10:45 last night, and I took Emily then to Trader Vic's at the London Hilton. We stayed until 2am ... lol
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