Another day, another nationalist gaffe. This time it’s pro-indy filmmaker and columnist — for that august journal the National — Lesley Riddoch in the spotlight. In a rather bizarre attempt to persuade the good people of Scotland that independence wouldn’t be a terrible idea, Riddoch has demonstrated exactly why the Nats should not be in charge.
In a stilted documentary clip, Riddoch tries to contrast the Denmark-Sweden crossing with one that could exist between Scotland and England in an alternate reality. As she’s driving, Riddoch tells the camera of the ‘frictionless border between two different countries’. They have ‘different systems, different languages and different currencies’. She goes on:
Does that get in the way of cross-border trade? Not when you pay by card.
Er, hang on. Is Riddoch seriously suggesting that the solution to the rather large currency problem an independent Scotland would face — never mind when simultaneously attempting to rejoin the EU — is a card machine? What currency does she believe her current card works in? What does she think it would be in an independent Scotland? There’s delusional and then there’s, um, this.
To top it all off, Riddoch then appears to demonstrate how to make a contactless card payment — something, dear readers, that has been possible since 2007 — before going on to press her card against the wrong part of the machine. One step at a time, Lesley…
Watch the clip here:
