Last week, we saw an exercise in constitutional panic as UK party leaders, past and present, stumbled blinking across Scotland, making improbable promises of federalism and protestations of undying love, while behind the scenes the UK Treasury tried to engineer a state of financial crisis. Number 10 rounded up supermarket bosses and tried to get them to spread forecasts of inevitable price rises in the shops. UK civil servants briefed the press on RBSs relocation before the banks board had even made the decision to go public. The UK media descended on Scotland as if upon a foreign country and demonstrated its ignorance of a mature debate that has been going on in Scotland, not just for the past three years but the past three decades. heraldscotland/comment/columnists/why-isnt-project-fear-working-take-a-bow-george-osborne.25314691
Posted on: Sun, 14 Sep 2014 12:13:06 +0000