Post by Admin on Jun 12, 2015 20:29:18 GMT
Jon Stewart asked where the money would come from if Scotland were to become independent. Ms Sturgeon said: "We've got a brilliant economy. We are an oil producing country." Stewart replied: "You have oil? May we invade you? Addressing the audience, Ms Sturgeon gave the host a taste of his own medicine when she said: "This is progress. You just heard there, Jon, presumably on behalf of the United States, asking for permission to invade an oil-producing country. It doesn't usually work that way." "See that, you are funny," said the host.
Having settled Ms Sturgeon, the host went straight for the big question he needed to address. He asked: "You have pledged for Scotland greater self-determination, more financial independence, but now after the election that has crashed head-on with the reality that Westminster still controls the purse strings and still believes in austerity. My question to you is this first minister. What is haggis? Why would anyone eat that? Ms Sturgeon said haggis was delicious. "It is spicy, it is tasty, it is absolutely delicious and you get vegetarian haggis as well. So another reason to come to Edinburgh."
Stewart told the first minister that the US went through a similar process to get away from the UK. Ms Sturgeon said: "You were a bit more successful, although I don't think we'll try to do it your way." Jon Stewart said: "Let me tell you what they hate. They hate when you throw their stuff into the water." "That's where we went wrong," Ms Sturgeon said.
The US chat show host asked the first minister how bad the divide got in Scotland over the independence referendum. He said: "I know it was bad on Twitter. Have you thought of seceding from Twitter?" Ms Sturgeon replied: "I think about seceding from Twitter every day." She added: "You know what? We hurl insults at each other on Twitter occasionally but the independence referendum was entirely democratic. It was peaceful and it has had an amazing legacy in Scotland.