Is Malta better run than Scotland?

Sir, As usual William Crossan (letters, March 10) is playing fast and loose with facts.

He writes of the per capita Gross Domestic Product (pc GDP) of Greece and Germany and slips in what the calculated pc GDP of an independent Scotland would have been for 2015.

Scotland would not have become independent until 2016. This figure of 43,410 euros, not dollars as Mr Crossan states, was the actual pc GDP of Scotland in the Union, not an estimation of an independent Scotland. That seems disingenuous.

Mr Crossan also omits that these figures are based on the price of a barrel of oil at $100 per barrel, not the $30 it fell to last year when our pc GDP dropped to 32,500 euros.

As Andrew Wilson said the oil-related stories that were going to see us the sixth richest country in the world are well past their sell-by date.

Scotland is not too wee as Mr Crossan states, if anything our country is too large for our population.

Without the £9 billion fiscal transfer from Westminster, which would cease on independence, we would be in a sorry economic state. Last year Scotland raised £53.7 billion in taxes but spent £68.5bn.

Finally Mr Crossan compares our economy with Malta’s pc GDP is 28,000 euros which is much lower than Scotland, but its pc GDP deficit sits at 2.7 per cent whilst Scotland’s is an eye-watering 9.5 per cent.

Malta’s Government is doing a much better job of running its country than the SNP-run Scottish government is managing ours.

Ms Sturgeon has called for indyref2 and we have the chance to vote again to remain in the Union. We will finally end this independence stupidity. Mike McGeachy, Campbeltown.