The Scotsman

Fed up or not?

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Mary Thomas (Letters, 11 July) tells us 4,000 Scottish businesses have signed a Business for Scotland Declaratio­n, supporting separatism. She cites this as compelling evidence that Scottish business are not “fed up” with Nicola Sturgeon’s dream of independen­ce and do not consider that the SNP’S obsession with constituti­onal change is destabilis­ing for our economy.

But hang on a minute. According to Scottish government statistics there are 350,410 private enterprise­s operating in Scotland. Based on Ms Thomas’ logic, 346,410 businesses therefore do not

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