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"You Can Take Your Scottish Freedom... But You'll Never Take Our Gold"
We can see it now, a wine-stained David Cameron staggers slowly towards Hadrian's Wall eying the hordes of Scottish gentlefolk staring at him; he glances back at his supporters (who cheer somewhat begrudgingly) before rapidly returning his eyes to the Scots and proclaiming... "you can take your freedom; but you'll never take our... Gold." As Reuters reports, an independent Scotland could lay claim to a part of the United Kingdom's 310-tonne gold reserves if votes go in favour of the "Yes" campaign this month, with ownership of Britain's bullion hoard up for negotiation along with other assets.
The "high-risk" event is increasingly likely - as evident in the FX markets - but the full consequences appear far from clear (as Reuters reports),
An independent Scotland could lay claim to a part of the United Kingdom's 310-tonne gold reserves if votes go in favour of the "Yes" campaign this month, with ownership of Britain's bullion hoard up for negotiation along with other assets.
"The distribution of the UK's assets in the event of Scottish independence would be subject to negotiation between an independent Scottish Government and the continuing UK government," a spokesman for the United Kingdom Treasury said on Monday.
The United Kingdom, whose reserves are worth 7.84 billion pounds ($12.6 billion) at today's prices, is currently the world's 18th largest official sector gold holder.
A decision to break away from the United Kingdom when Scotland's voters go to the polls on Sept. 18 would be followed by negotiations with London over a raft of assets, including the pound and North Sea oil.
Of course, Britain's Gordon Brown (who returned to frontline politics this year to campaign for the preservation of Scotland's 307-year old union with England) is infamous for the 'worst trade ever'...
Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has faced persistent criticism for disposing of almost 400 tonnes of the United Kingdom's gold via a series of auctions between 1999 and 2002, when prices were at their lowest in around 20 years.
Gold prices surged over the following decade, topping out in September 2011 at $1,920.30 an ounce, nearly five times their end 2002 level.
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Gordon Brown sucks.
What am I?
Some come here to sit and think,
Most come here to shit and stink,
Blow me down and strike me pink,
Gordon Brown comes here to eat and drink.
Simply buy the gold 1 barrel of oil at a time.
Farage wants the UK to stay together, but then he wants the UK to leave the Eurozone, so I guess you can TRY to have it boths ways. He has ben asked to simply stay our of the Scottish debate, seems smart to me.
Leave the gold in Engalnd. Leave the debt in England as well. Borrow money at 0.0000 percent..... buy gold on the open market and when it is at 5k an oz sell 20% percent of it to cover the debt.
That 310 tonnes of 100 times rehypothicated fictitious gold is likely a lot closer to 31 ounces of paper by now.
Now if its’ a share of a pile of gilded tungsten they interested in...
Yeaahhhh...about that 'reserve' part...
Scottish independence will trigger a wave of due dilligence, audits and accounting exercises which the British elite will move heaven and earth to avoid, whether it be North Sea gas reserves, gold or public finances. Accounting for leased-out gold could be a major problem
I really miss the Glasgow Rangers. I can't wait till they are back at the top of the premier league. Celtic needs the competition.
But Farage wants UK out of EU - and he knows Scotland are more pro-EU than England - so maybe a Yes vote is in his interest?
Scotland probably likes the EU for its subsidies..
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/transport-environment/revealed-the-scots-farmers-made-millionaires-by-eu-subsidies-1.1026316
Article a bit old but the vested interests / big landowners still around today.
"Simply buy the gold 1 barrel of oil at a time."
and store it in Scotland
The toilet
BROWN'S BOTTOM
The TWAT
BROWN'S BOTTOM
The TWAT
'worst trade ever'
Best trade ever for Goldman.
The auctioned HMT gold was delivered by the Bank to the Market and then Goldman promptly turned around and delivered it to cover it's ass
Trade? LOL! It was a looting or theft just like the zio's stole the Ukriane and Libya's gold.
Good luck, Scotland, getting anything back. The Crown probably owns a copyright on the name "Scotland."
Ask Germany how trying to get their gold back is working out for them.
Meh. HUGE energy producer. With Russia choking off supplies to the West (or is if the West now doing it themselves?) they're minting money.
"Might as well have the mint too."
They won't get the gold, but they'll sure as hell get a big slice of Britain's national debt heaped on them as a lovely parting gift from the union.
They should accept no greater percentage of the debt than the percentage of gold bullion delivered.
Several complex issues surround the idea of going off on their own. If Scotland wants independence then so be it, but sorting out the political and economic ties with the rest of the UK, may be difficult. Scotland has to be allowed to stand on its own two feet without the rest of the UK financially and economically supporting it. The Euro proves that more than one sovereign country cannot easily use the same currency.
Portugal, Ireland, Greece, Italy and Spain have discovered that you cannot have full independence and share a currency. Another problem is that if the UK Government is to agreeable to a separation, will Wales and Northern Ireland move towards independence? That might encourage similar movements in Catalonia, Belgium, Northern League in Italy, Basques, Cornish, and among the Poles. More on the issues surrounding the pound and an independent Scotland in the article below.
http://brucewilds.blogspot.com/2013/06/british-pound-and-independant-sco...
Might also encourage Northern California, certain counties in Colorado, and Alabama, Georgia, Texas, Alaska, Wyoming, Idaho, Maryland, Tennessee, et al. I'm all in for voting.
If the Northern League in Italy pulls it off then I am there. Amerikans voted for Obama and watch college ball and other shit Obam-TV like brainwashed retards. TV, the NFL, NCAA, NBA, NBL all love Obama. F them.
errr, Freddie, you DO undertsand that the Northern League is not a sporting body? Sadly, it's more significant than that. It's an Italian political movement and party. They're infamous for exploiting the snobbery and snootiness of many Italians in the northern regions towards the those less "worthy" and less "diligent" (sound familiar??) in the southern regions of Italy. Nevermind that the North had sucked the South dry ever since the unification of Italy back in the 1800s -- to the point where most ambitious hard-working Southerners just upp'ed stakes and emigrated.
No fear of Northern Ireland going for independence. It's not a viable economic entity as an independent country.
Something along those lines seems inevitable eventually anyway, so why not get the ball rolling now?
Break-ups are inevitable and it seems to me that everything has been kept so unstable for a reason and that reason is that they've pretty much lost control. The various bullshit initiatives these sociopaths have been hatching for the last twenty five years or so have spun out of control.
I can't quite decide if these 'folks' actually want us to marvel at their obviousness and malice or to pity them for their pathetic idiocy?
Chaos is due.
Full Independence...Och ay!....Pay our own GIRO, foch no!
Let the Puddiks keep paying that...
The same people "safeguarding" Ukraine's, Iraq's and Libya's gold will be "safeguarding" Scotland's. Dream on.
The Scots just need to tell Mel Gibson that the Joos took it and he'll gladly be their William Wallace again.
Might need a fighting stock of some good tequila...
There's no more gold in the queen's vault than there is in a candy bar wrapper. It's all gold wrapped tungsten.
Where is the latest peer to peer code to bypass the internet kill swictch. Where can we get it?
They'll have to get it back from the Rothschild banksters, the FedRes and BoE, which means the Chinese actually have it.
Good luck with getting it back. LOL
An American, not US subject.
I think the Scots won't go away quietly like the Germans. The dollar's black swan might have red hair and a bad temper, and possibly a drinking problem.
Let's see the modern version of that. Bail on the US or EU, actually control your borders and clean up your finance, others may want to join in next to you like the old CH.
310 tons? Good luck backing the pound with that "hoard." No wonder Scotland wants out. Friggin Andrew Carnegie had more gold than that (in actual gold dollar terms.)
It really is said to think "once we had empires." Now we have "the A list." Pathetic.
The Pound could quite happily be backed by that much gold.
It would just require an adjustment in the price of the aforementioned metal.
If more Scots looked at the history of the 'Act of Union' and what led up to it (Darien Scheme) the no vote would be blown out of the water.
Follow the money, folks.
Do they have to take Gordon Brown back?
Or another export, Tony Blair?
"You'll have to pry your Gold from my cold dead hands." - David Cameron
A tempting offer.
Makes me think of MIB.
Okay, I junk
My last comment was amputated by the site. I quit now.
"You'll have to pry your Gold from my cold dead hands." - David Cameron
Och! how sorely you tempt us! And don't think it would nay be a pleasure....
310 tons ! There's whore houses in India with more than that
If Scotland votes for independance,
Will they lift sanctions vs Russia? Then join BRICS(S).
Take a piss out of the Brits, EU, ZioCons and Just Do It-!
Canadian government in the '90s did the exact same thing as Brown and sold almost all our gold reserves (500.8 tons in 1989) which now sit at a paltry 3.4 tons. But, hey, we've got lots of US fiat currency in reserve that you can at least burn to keep warm during our frigid winters. See this: http://canadianawareness.org/2012/11/the-story-of-canadas-gold/
http://olduvai.ca
Canada did that at the Empire's behest
To drop the oil price to $10
To screw Russia
Which is what happened
Then Yeltsin appointed Putin
As leader of Russia
And now Putin is
Screwing the Empire.
Canada still has some.
It just hasn't been dug up yet.
Can't say that for many places.
They would never give up the gold. They will pay Scotland in dollars or take it off Scotland's share of the debt.
Yes, but what will the Queen say?
They should be running "Braveheart" in Scotland every night until the vote.
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Well done eb.
Hope that heartless bitch and her husband who's wish is to have a second life as a "deadly virus" and a first son who woo's his mistress by telling her "he wants to be a tampon in her"... Will loose huge on that separation.
Fucking freaks!
Since Scotland will remain within the monarchy, she loses nothing. If they eventually vote to become a republic, she loses a couple drafty old mansions. Given that uppity Australia has yet to become a republic, I would save my breath if I were you.
I thought Balmoral & Glamis castles were owned outright by the Royal family, Balmoral being bought by Prince Albert and Glamis by the Lyon family.
I don't think Scotland will win freedom either, backsides are being kicked and levers of power in full throttle now.
Reminds me of an old joke about a drumk staggering down the street and bumps into a very well endowed fairy (the old school, female type - for clarity).
She says she can grant him a wish.
His wish...
I'd love to get between your legs!
She turned him into a tampon.
Outlander is more effective and relevant
Britain dosent have any more fucking Gold...
fucking assholes...
scared to death of Scotland sayin' "fuck off..."
too bad...its a comin'.
Britain's gold reserves are pitiful. Tiny Lebanon has almost as many.
I do not think that the NWO, headquartered in the City of London (which is actually NOT a part of London), will quetly look on as Scotland may just flip England the bird and prove that you do not need them NOR the EU to survive.
Salmon: Sae kin we hae oor share o' th' gowd noo?
Cameron: Sorry old bean, didn't quite catch that. Say again.
Salmon: Ah said, kin ye deliver oor gowd up tae auld reekie neist week?
Cameron: Ah yes, the gold. To Edinburgh? Well, I'm afraid not, your portion is currently residing in New York. That's just the way it was divvied out by Georgie boy, or so he tells me.
Salmon: Howfur in th' name o' uilleam wallace dae we git it back fae nuw york toun? we've na ships or planes noo
Cameron: Well then, you should have thought about that before you voted to get rid of the ships and planes. I'm afraid we can't help you on that one old boy.
Salmon: Git yer pasty sassenach prune coupon back tae london afore ah git ye locke in th' tower!
Cameron: Sorry again old chap, don't quite follow. Never mind, tally ho for now. Don't call us, we'll call you about the oil in a few weeks. I'm sure MI5 will find a few interesting videos in their archives. Or is it MI6 now? Splendid, I'm off to ride an unpredictable red headed filly. Must dash.
Alex Salmon: Crack open a bottle of Buckfast (tonic wine) and release the Dogs of War. Then get me Vlad Mc Putin on the Phone. "Hi Vlad, still looking for somewhere to park those Missiles, laddie, I have an excellent place near Gretna Green"
Many bitcon BaGholDers right here at 460's
You can cry on the shoulder of all the G0lD bagmeisters.
There are many of both right here on ZH
I remember those auctions. I really wish I had understood their implications at the time.
In 2004 L.M. Rothschild and AIG gave up their seats on the LMBA *(LGMF [Gold Fix* Ltd.)! Why? Brown had done Evelyn his tenured deed?
After the 911 incident, the 'ALL` Gold Reserves' were transfered to Scotia-Mocatta in Canada?? Another 'Y' 2
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mocatta
Germany wants its gold too. Good luck with that.
What gold?
Gold = FREEEEEDOM!!!
Gold = I hope to fuck it never gets that bad.
Still a bad plan to have none.
310 tonnes.
The entire UK claims 310 tonnes. That's counting Kate's jewelry.
OK, Scotland should get a third. 103.3333333333...33333.333 tonnes.
Cough it up, Dave. Moose, Rocco, help Dave load it on the truck, will ya?
brown sold the british peoples gold to his masonic scottish rite buddies the rothschild clan.
he speaks for paedophiles and rapists so the rothschild position is clear stay in jock.
ex scottish head of nato george robinson had a meat wrangler mate called thomas hamilton he provided kids for many scottish rite.
he later went on a shooting rampage that changed the gun laws forever.
gordon brown needs to be in prison for rape and treason and piracy fucking mental scotch cunt.
FREEEEEDOM!. the spirit of wallace lives!!!!.
As we speak Charlie Croacker is buy 3 minis ,a couple of Jags a big bus and Planning the Scotland job. 103 tonnes of Gold through London rush hour......This is the self preservation society......
The Scots make me laugh they are crying out for independence only for Alex Salmond to apply for new EU membership which he probably won't negotiate the terms pretty well just to get shafted by Brussels.
Or maybe he'll decide to integrate Scotland into the Russian Federation after all Obama said something like "Spheres of influence are no longer relevant".
Either way bullish on Scotland I am definitely not and I truly beleive if the Scots vote yes Alex Salmond will become the most hated man in Scotland in a few years.
in the ussa THE WRONG SIDE WON THE CIVIL WAR....... state rights vs big brother.....