The Panama Solution - This is to do with using the pound in an informal arrangement without being formally backed by Bank of England - suspect it could be risky but here is a little more about it and why its called "the Panama solution" !
http://online.wsj.com/articles/a-currency-solution-for-scotland-1408637116
Transatlantic Trade and Investment Agreement (TTIP)
A free trade agreement between EU and US - but apparently now potentially affecting the NHS....
1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transatlantic_Trade_and_Investment_Partnership
2 http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/02/eu-us-free-trade-deal-ttip-transatlantic-trade-investment-partnership
3 http://www.pharmexec.com/pharmexec/Noteworthy/TTIP-From-Hot-Tip-to-Oblivion/ArticleStandard/Article/detail/851863?contextCategoryId=48158
Barnett Formula
The calculation for the amount of money paid to Scotland from the UK budget - obviously money is also raised from Scotland
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/scottish-independence/11100400/My-funding-formula-for-Scotland-is-a-terrible-mistake-Lord-Barnett-admits.html
Devo Max
We currently pre-18th September in Scotland have a Scottish parliament and devolution. But we certainly dont raise all our taxes here. Currently it is 7% going up to 15% planned via the Scotland Act in 2015. Devo Max proposes giving Scotland more powers to raise its own taxes.
Twitter acronyms
140 Characters is all you are allowed to construct your arguments in Twitter - so here are some of the acronyms appearing :
WM - Westminster
AS - Alex Salmond
BT - not the phone company but Better Together - remember them ?!
TTIP - Transatlantic Trade and Investment Agreement (see above !)
Please send in any more weird acronyms you spot or other phrases you've never heard of ! And we will investigate and add them here !
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