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We Need to Talk About Scotland – Chokka blog (Chairman of These Islands)

Nicola Sturgeon’s indyref dream in tatters as economist warns independent Scotland will start with £180bn debt – Daily Express

It’s time for Westminster to take on the SNP – The Spectator

Letters to the Scottish press special, 15/06/22: IndyRef2 – Here We Go Again

Letters to the press, 14/06/22: “Sir John Kay – sometime economics adviser to Alex Salmond – tells us in a new book that a separate Scotland “would begin independent life carrying a pro-rata share of UK debt in the region of £180 billion”. Scotland would also need to borrow, he adds, to cover its budget deficit of between £10bn and £20bn, every year. This raises a few points…”

SNP urged to ‘come clean’ about second independence referendum – The Guardian

Letters to the press, 09/6/22: “The much-vaunted alcohol pricing initiative of Nicola Sturgeon’s SNP, like so many other of their key projects, has been declared a failure. Those with severe dependency problems were apparently cutting back on food and nutrition in order to pay for their drink. It gives me no pleasure to say that many forecast this was exactly what would happen.”