False promises
Polling day approaches and it is now clear we will be bombarded by more fanciful and disingenuous claims from the First Minister and his acolytes.
It has to be borne in mind that if we wake up to a Yes vote on 19 September, all the misinformation and false claims and promises made by the Yes camp will be an irrelevance.
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Hide AdThe non-existent legal opinion on the subject of Europe, the non-existent talks entered into with the Bank of England on currency union: “it’s our pound and we are keeping it”; we will remain part of Nato; we will have the foreign Bank of England as lender of last resort and don’t forget we will keep the Queen – will mean nothing as the die will have been cast and no amount of outrage or shouts of foul play will result in the clock being turned back.
Richard Allison
Braehead Loan
Edinburgh