Scotland's indy financial fears

An article in the Times exploits a major SNP weakness - its failure to clearly state that an independent Scotland will use its own currency from the outset, not that of a foreign nation.

- Leah Gunn Barrett, Edinburgh

By equivocating, saying Scotland would use the English pound for an unspecified period, it has created a rod for its own back which the unionists are more than happy to wield.