During the 2014 Scottish independence referendum, Alistair Darling, claimed the Bank of England saved Scotland from a currency collapse. But his fear campaign narrative was economical with the truth. The U.S. Treasury supported the RBS’s U.S. operations a

During the 2014 Scottish independence referendum, Alistair Darling, claimed the Bank of England saved Scotland from a currency collapse. But his fear campaign narrative was economical with the truth. The U.S. Treasury supported the RBS’s U.S. operations a

I well remember the fear tactics of the Better Together fearmongers in 2014 including the intervention of former UK Chancellor Alistair Darling who asked Scots to cast their minds back to the events of 2007 and the banking crash that almost ruined the Bank of Scotland. He went on to say that an independent Scotland, should not expect English taxpayers to stand behind failing Scottish banking institutions. He then claimed that it was the Bank of …