What do you think of the leaked dossier by the Scottish finance secretary?

Sooner or later ordinary Scots will realise the financial mess Salmond has got them into with these 'political bribes' or freebies.

A country like Scotland just does not have the financial capability to rectify such losses and eventually will have to go 'cap in hand' to the gnomes of Zurich or put the taxes up to cover the loss.

No real difference from being in the UK then.

Also GERS figures released on the same day as the leaked report seem to disagree with it showing Scotland's deficit below the UK's and the IMF average. Clearly shoes Scotland would be in a better position to now to handle these things. The report itself dosen't really have any credibility as it is based on a UK deficit of over a 130 billion and not Scotland's which is 8 billion, also GERS showed Scotland is raising 800 more per head than the rest of the UK through taxation, a fact that seems to have been ignored. I think this leaked report has been in the possession of unionists for some time and to their credit they have bided there time for the right time to release it, but in the grand scheme of things doesn't really mean anything as the figures used are out dated. its the same as the GERS report, its just which one will make the most noise? Both are irrelevant but will get people talking one way or the other countering each argument with each report.

I notice you don't mention the positive news showing Scotland pays 9.9% of UK taxation but only spends 9.3%, why is that?

Edit: Jean i think you should have a read at this, an article in today's Scotsman, it agrees with about 50% of what i said but answers your question as a whole much better

http://www.scotsman.com/the-scotsman/opinion/comme...

Well life is tough isnt it!