Sir In my letter published on April 7, I included one piece of data which, in haste, I had not thoroughly checked.
I apologise for this, and assure your readers it was not my intention to mislead. In other respects, particularly the insistence of Prof Richard Murphy and others that the GERS figures are incapable of telling us anything meaningful about the economy of an independent Scotland, I stand by what I said. The question boils down to this. Is Scotland too wee and too poor to be an independent country?
In other words, in opposing Scottish independence, is a Westminster government saying: ‘Don’t go, we want to go on subsidising you?’ Logic suggests that if Scotland really was a drain on the UK’s finances, England would be only too glad for us to go.