"Both of them thought that independence was a bad idea, but could not provide much reason for this. " The reasoning is generally that the plan is to keep the p

"Both of them thought that independence was a bad idea, but could not provide much reason for this. " The reasoning is generally that the plan is to keep the pound or join the Euro but sharing a currency but not a government is dangerous. The past decade of Germany's "fuck you got mine" agenda dominating EU monetary policy to the detriment of the periphery is normally used as exhibit A here.