Brexit cost analysis

I must take exception to attempts to equate the First Minister’s announcement on the financial impact of Brexit with an independence referendum.

Such attempts to conjoin the two are sleekit, seeking to deflect attention away from the dire predictions contained with the report.

As a parent in a “hard-working ordinary family”, when I hear any politician talking about Brexit, all I hear is “loss of income for me, my wife and my children”.

And with the 62 per cent vote in Scotland to remain in the EU, I’m confident that my reading of the situation is in tune with populus Scotiae.

It speaks volumes that no other government within the UK has released a financial impact assessment of Brexit. Either it wasn’t deemed necessary to carry out such assessments, which many would describe as a dereliction of duty of government, or the assessments were carried out and the financial implications were deemed so appalling that they had to be buried.

The results may be shocking, but the Scottish Government should be applauded for carrying out this analysis.

DAVID PATRICK Thirlestane Road, Edinburgh