Pound of flesh

The appropriate response by Westminster to the proposal that after independence we should share a currency union would have been to suggest that, if need be, such a matter would be
resolved by negotiation (with, I imagine, a predictable indication that such negotiation was unlikely ever to be required).

Instead, we got an aggressive Chancellor George Osborne
coming up to Edinburgh to rule out a currency union before
rudely running out a back door without answering any questions.

The result is that we now have a Better Together campaign that has been led by Alex Salmond into a currency union trap from which there is no escape.

Most people are more
concerned about how much
currency they have than by what it is called, but everybody now knows Scotland can use the pound without UK permission.

The message therefore that is coming out loud and clear from the unionists is registering as “Vote No or we will try to ruin you” which is offensive but
completely ineffective and, more importantly, much more damaging to the Better Together
campaign than it is to Yes.

David McEwan Hill

Dalinlongart

Sandbank, Argyll