Show us the money, SNP

Sir, – We saw the embarrassing spectacle of Scotland’s First Minister, interviewed live on TV, appearing either not to have read, or not to have understood the financial and economic detail of the Growth Commission report that she herself commissioned.

Coming on top of so

many other fiscal nonsenses from the SNP, it would appear that the current honeymoon with Scottish voters is rapidly turning into a “money moon”.

The fact remains that the SNP has singularly failed to show how Scotland’s separation from the UK will be so much better for us all, and where the money is coming from to pay for everything.

Like it or not, it’s the economy that provides the jobs, the investment and the tax income that pays for public services and as a rule, smaller economies and smaller population numbers cannot match the performance of larger economies.

The SNP policy is a short-term thing.

Let’s, for a change, think about how Scotland might look in the longer term and in doing so, let’s also remember that the world at large would view Scotland as a “developing economy”, having no track record of sovereign governance nor total fiscal management.

This means borrowing costs for an independent Scotland would be far higher than those currently enjoyed by the UK.

How then will the SNP be able to continue with voter-catching wheezes, such as baby boxes, free prescriptions, free sanitary products for women, free education for EU citizens, and on and on.

It is time for Scotland to recover its sanity and vote out the people engaged in promoting such dreadful tosh. Derek Farmer. Knightsward Farm, Anstruther.