US economists and politicians pile in: 'Don't do it, Scotland!'

Former Fed chief Alan Greenspan is latest to warn Scots: Bank of England will never bail you out

Charles Laurence

It has long been agreed that Brits and Americans stay out of each other’s domestic politics, for good reasons to do with both old wars of independence and the embarrassment of having to deal with the winners if you have backed the losers.

Back in 2013, the US Ambassador in London, Matthew Barzum, endorsed that convention, telling the BBC:“We don’t get into picking sides.”

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Charles Laurence is a US correspondent for The Week.co.uk. He is a former New York bureau chief for The Daily Telegraph. He divides his time between Manhattan and Woodstock, upstate New York.