Strange logic

An egg thrown at Labour’s Jim Murphy (in which shirt he marched like a wounded hero for ages) is branded as intimidation, but distorted threats to jobs, wrung from reluctant business leaders, subsequently denied yet repeated by the leader of Better Together, Alistair Darling, are described as fulfilment of fiduciary duty.

Patricia Dishon (Letters, 15 September) has eloquently described how morally bankrupt Alistair Darling has become in repeating stories he knew to be untrue, but what about this concept of fiduciary duty?

Much was made of the laughable contribution from David Folkerts-Landau that independence would take Scotland into a depression on the scale of the 1930s.

Perhaps considering his track record in financial mismanagement it is not surprising that Gordon Brown endorsed Mr Folkerts-Landau’s opinion as the two are well matched.

Mr Folkert-Landau was one of Deutsche Bank’s chief  economists at the time of the 2008 crash and presided over the write-off of billions of pounds of toxic loans taken on without any real chance of repayment.

Douglas Turner

Derby Street

Edinburgh