Think-tank battle

Your report (15 September) on the CPS think-tank’s conclusions regarding Scotland’s 
future under independence are lies, damned lies and statistics; a fine example of using 
statistics to bolster the weak 
arguments coming from the No campaign.

How anyone in Scotland is supposed to believe a report coming from a think-tank 
co-founded by Margaret Thatcher is beyond me.

In the same piece, the same tired reportage on the “flight of banks and financial institutions” from Scotland in the event of a Yes vote is also re-iterated, entirely ignoring the evidence in a letter from an RBS spokesman and other sources stating categorically that that would not be the case.

Given that The Scotsman has openly stated it is in support of a No vote, there’s now little reporting in this newspaper that can be viewed as impartial or even attempting to state the case for both sides of the debate.

I hope the truth will eventually prevail and we will have a 
resounding Yes victory on Thursday, flying in the face of the underhand tactics employed by opposition in the media.

C Murphy

West Calder

West Lothian