What happens ?....Scottish Independence.

[Leman]

Yes. It means Scotland will be uniting with either Portugal or Austria.

[WeeWars]

Not France? 

[Hertsblue]

Bored, bored, bored, bored, bored. Go or stay - just get on with it!

[WeeWars]

Shall we vote on having a separate Scottish Wargaming Message Board? Then we can chatter away on our own.   

Only Scottish members can vote to have a separate Scottish Wargaming Message Board, of course.

[Leman]

Shouldn't that be only members currently residing in Scotland?

[WeeWars]

Yes, of course, but we'd have to work out some form of postal vote as well.

[fsn]

I know how to save the Union!

Get Mr Cameron to stand in the Scottish Parliament and say "actually, the SNP have some good ideas. Perhaps Mr Salmond is right."

Complete collapse of "yes" vote guaranteed.

[Leman]

I'm out!

[Techno]

I know how to save the Union!
Get Mr Cameron to stand in the Scottish Parliament and say "actually, the SNP have some good ideas. Perhaps Mr Salmond is right."
Complete collapse of "yes" vote guaranteed.

Sad....But probably true.
Cheers - Phil

[WeeWars]

Never mind London-town, they're all up here today, buying stuff for the kids from the tartan gift shop and eating deep-fried Mars Bars for lunch.

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Dont forget the tartan berets with attached ginger wig.

ianS

[Matt J]

If Scotland becomes independent does that mean Scottish forum members can purchase Pendraken sans VAT?

[Leon]

If Scotland becomes independent does that mean Scottish forum members can purchase Pendraken sans VAT?

If the new Scotland end up outside of the EU, then yes.  It would also mean that every time we go up to a Scottish show, we would need to declare the takings at the border and pay a sales tax to the Scottish government.  That's in theory, hopefully common sense would prevail and they'd figure out some kind of trade agreement between the two countries.

It wouldn't be so bad for us only going to 4 shows north of the border each year, but for the Scottish traders, they'd have to do the same thing every time they come down to the UK shows, potentially adding a huge amount of costs to their businesses.

You'd also have increases to the postage costs to deal with, as Scotland would become classed as 'Europe' as far as Royal Mail are concerned, so you wouldn't be able to just stick it through 1st class as we do now.  There'd be potential 'Remote Area' fees as well for some parts of the Highlands, which Royal Mail currently just absorb into their regular prices.  Many courier services will charge a premium to deliver north of Aberdeen or out to the Shetlands.

[Rob]

Leon I think you will be wrong about Royal Mail "Europe" charges. (I did a contract at Parcel-Force) They use a Europen carrier for ebery thing across the channel and an American carrier for world-wide deliveries. I would suggest they would continue using the same arrangements for Scotland when they break away.

[Rob]

Interesting point on taxes. If Scotland manges to join the EU they will of course not have the UK (that terrible Maggie did this)  opt-out so will have to then pay taxes on food, childrens cloths and believe it or not newspapers. VAT is a minimum of 15%