There’s an echo in Syriza’s presentation of the options to the Greek people in the SNP’s approach to the independence referendum in September 2014.
The SNP campaigned promising a plan A of keeping Sterling, (because they knew the Scots were afraid of the unknown alternatives), yet having full sovereignty over fiscal policy. All other UK parties announced that this would not be conceded.
The SNP revealed no plan B, on the basis that they insisted it would be in the interests of the Rest of UK [RUK] to grant continued membership. This was a pretty astonishing claim. Given the unfolding of the Eurozone crisis, caused by a combination of independent fiscal policies and a common monetary policy, just what the SNP were asking for, it is pretty plausible that the RUK parties claim that Sterling membership would not be on offer was real, and not a ploy.
So Syriza are…
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