Balance of power

Not for the first time, Joyce  McMillan (Perspective, 23 May) castigates the government for its “neo-liberal” austerity; this is a government that is still borrowing record sums – all it has managed to do is reduce the sums borrowed.

By The Newsroom

Saturday, 24th May 2014, 1:00 am

She also has a go at it for kowtowing to global capital; perhaps rightly, but in part this is because of the power of global capital.

What chance would a small economy like an independent Scotland have?

William Ballantine

Dean Road

Bo’ness, West Lothian

Balance of power

Not for the first time, Joyce McMillan (Perspective, 23 May) castigates the government for its “neo-liberal” austerity; this is a government that is still borrowing record sums – all it has managed to do is reduce the sums borrowed.

Sign up to our Opinion newsletter

Sign up to our Opinion newsletter

Not for the first time, Joyce  McMillan (Perspective, 23 May) castigates the government for its “neo-liberal” austerity; this is a government that is still borrowing record sums – all it has managed to do is reduce the sums borrowed.