Not a pound of debt...

[AtW]

No pound, no debt, says Salmond

Business news and markets: live - Telegraph

Well, as predicted cretin Osborne just ended up with all the debt. Is there any ex-UK colony that took on any debt, nevermind denominated in sterling?

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No pound, no debt, says Salmond

Business news and markets: live - Telegraph

Well, as predicted cretin Osborne just ended up with all the debt. Is there any ex-UK colony that took on any debt, nevermind denominated in sterling?

America eventually agreed to settle debts post Independence

[AtW]

America eventually agreed to settle debts post Independence

Debts to the French?

[Doggy Styles]

No pound, no debt, says Salmond

Business news and markets: live - Telegraph

Well, as predicted cretin Osborne just ended up with all the debt. Is there any ex-UK colony that took on any debt, nevermind denominated in sterling?

And you believe him!

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Jay Treaty 1794

The United States guaranteed the payment of private prewar debts owed by Americans to British merchants that could not be collected in U.S. courts (the U.S. paid £600,000 in 1802).

[AtW]

Jay Treaty 1794

But that's private debt - not UK's official debt that was split for USA to take on.

[doodab]

Whether or not Salmond can actually negotiate zero debt rather depends on what else Scotland want post independence.

Presumably they are going to expect their citizens to be able to cross the border at will, not show a passport, work in the uk etc whereas it's quite possible an independent scotland could be treated more like eire, with the exception that scots won't have an automatic right to work in the uk, as they won't be in the eu. So there will need to be some negotiating there.

[Troll]

But that's private debt - not UK's official debt that was split for USA to take on.

Is there any ex-UK colony that took on any debt

Paid for by the US ergo they took the debt on - how it originated wasn't part of your specification

If you wish to revisit your original question, then I may have an alternative answer

[MicrosoftBob]

Whether or not Salmond can actually negotiate zero debt rather depends on what else Scotland want post independence.

Presumably they are going to expect their citizens to be able to cross the border at will, not show a passport, work in the uk etc whereas it's quite possible an independent scotland could be treated more like eire, with the exception that scots won't have an automatic right to work in the uk, as they won't be in the eu. So there will need to be some negotiating there.

Couldn't we just put Hadrians Wall back into use ?

[doodab]

Couldn't we just put Hadrians Wall back into use ?

I bet they'd want to keep that as well. Tough tulip, it's ours, we built it to keep them out.