Money matters

So Keith Brown, Economic Secretary, promotes a separate currency for Scotland but admits to “not being a currency expert” ( Your report, May 22). Par forth eS NP course. The Transport Secretary “knows nothing about transport ”, the Finance Secretary . . . ( I could go on). The Growth Commission report is published tomorrow and I will read it with interest, particularly about how a separate currency might work. In the last week I have made three purchases on Amazon – probably a typical set of activities for most of us. All came from England, so presumably I would need to change currency to buy in sterling.

I have also returned from awizzair trip and booked a Jet2 trip for next month. Are these airlines going to change to include a Scottish pound, and at what additional cost to me? I have two children in England who I visit regularly, so that’s another need to change currency to buy petrol, etc.

Again, I could go on and list those simple daily activities that I can see would be affected. Is this gross inconvenience worth pure political point- scoring, just to be different from England? If the Scottish pound was to be pegged to sterling would there be any point to this massive disruption? The big fear has to be that a non- pegged Scottish pound would sink, courtesy of currency speculators.

KEN CURRIE Liberton Drive, Edinburgh