The Smackeroonie

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About

The Smackeroonie also spelled The Smackirooni refers to a proposed currency for an independent Scotland by Scottish stand up comedian Kevin Bridges.

Origin

On Semptember 8th, 2014, comedy program Kevin Bridges: Live at the Referendum aired. On the topic of the currency an independent Scotland would use, he said that Scotland could create a new currency called 'the Smackeroonie'.

Spread

After the programme had aired, people started to photoshop the British pound notes and replace them with figureheads from Scotland which included Kevin Bridges, First Minister of Scotland Alex Salmond and the cast of the Scottish television comedy series Still Game (shown below).

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In Early September 2016, Scottish newspapers, The Scotsman^[1] and The Herald^[2] had published an article on the release of the two smackeroonie coin which was designed by a Scottish National Party member and sold for charity at the 2016 Scottish National Party (SNP) conference in Glasgow.

On March 1st, 2019, STV News^[3] reported that "Keith Brown revealed he and finance secretary Derek Mackay will put forward a motion to the party's conference in Edinburgh next month." That day, Twitter users reintroduced the idea of the smackeroonie.