Oil barometer
The claims of the Yes side in the referendum, that a separated Scotland would be super wealthy, were based on oil revenues assuming prices close to double that amount.
When more cautious heads on the No side dared to question the wealth forecasts, bearing in mind the volatility of the oil price, they were attacked as being “fearties” at best and at worst received the old SNP favourite for those who ask for details of the wilder Nationalist suppositions: “anti-Scottish”.
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Hide AdAll of Scotland should be grateful for the cool heads of the silent majority in September.
Without their wisdom this country would have been heading for unimaginably severe economic problems and the unemployment and economic distress in Ireland, Greece and elsewhere would have been mild in comparison.
Alexander McKay
New Cut Rigg
Edinburgh