Letter: Try autonomy

It has been most amusing watching the ping pong debate in these columns between academics, politicians and contributors agonising over Calman and fiscal autonomy and whose "hypothetical" is right (or more right than the other).

The economy is notoriously difficult to predict and we can rest assured that the so-called experts and pundits will be wrong to some extent.

What we can say with confidence and with actual metrics, not hypotheticals, is the status quo both at a UK and Scotland level is not working and that a "more of the same" approach is unlikely to provide a step change.

We should give fiscal autonomy a chance; it can hardly be any worse than what we have at present and, in any case, any future comparison would only be a hypothetical estimate of what would have happened without it.

Michael N Crosby

Muiravonside

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