Fire up economy

Robert D Kilgour et al ( Letters, 28 August) are factually incorrect i n stating GERS i s the Scottish Government’s own report. To quote the Scottish Finance Minister, Kate Forbes, GERS reflects “Another government’s policy choices allocated to Scotland”.

The “pooling and sharing” that is referred to in the letter – we have seen how that has played out since the 2007 crash and bank bailout.

The main effect of the government’s quantitative easing after the crash was to create yet another property bubble in the south- east of England. We can expect the economic measures taken in the aftermath of the virus to follow the same pattern.

While we are meeting this challenge we will then face a hard Brexit.

According to a recent poll, 70 per cent of Scots have more confidence in the S cottish Government to manage the economy than Westminster. It is high time they were granted their wish to see Scotland control its economic destiny. This is indeed the only way our economy will be allowed to “fire on all cylinders”.

JIM DALY Fox Spring Crescent Comiston, Edinburgh

I watched Kate Forbes’ response to the GERS figures and it seems that the main substance of the case for removing Scotland from the Union remains the old ditty “when we get our hands on all the levers”! So that is what the Scottish people have to hang their hats on. Pretty compelling stuff!

Against t he backdrop of all the disaster areas created through their period of governance we are to accept that the people responsible for them will now be capable of pulling ALL the levers in exactly the right way.

All this from a start point of a £ 15 billion deficit, not accounting for the devastation of Covid 19. They must be joking.

Surely the Scottish electorate deserves better than this?

IAN HOGG High Cross Avenue, Melrose