Scottish nationalism figured prominently in the campaign for Thursday’s UK general election. But the first true act of independence could be a move by HSBC, a bank that has never been happy in London, back to Hong Kong. The Scots expatriate clan that founded and still heads HSBC is losing patience — a virtue it never possessed in abundance — with being taxed, ringfenced and unappreciated.
在圍繞週四英國大選展開的競選活動中,蘇格蘭民族主義成爲一個熱點。但首個真正的「獨立」行動,可能是滙豐銀行(HSBC)將總部遷回香港。滙豐在倫敦似乎從未高興過,創立滙豐並依然領導該行的蘇格蘭移民家族因賦稅、圈護規則以及不被賞識而正在失去耐心,而耐心是該家族從未充分擁有的一種美德。
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