TO anyone hoping for a commentary on the Scottish Budget, my apologies. Deadlines mean I cannot comment on the Scottish Government’s plans this week. In the coming months, however, there will be plenty of time to go through them in detail and to look at the implications of the medium-term financial strategy for changes in the pattern of government expenditure.
My message for this week is that devolution is working well and that should give us confidence that independence will work well, too.
That was my immediate response to reading a short piece on Scottish productivity, written by John Tsoukalas of the University of Glasgow, picked up by Douglas Fraser for the BBC, and, on my Twitter timeline, roundly condemned by independence supporters.
Tsoukalas was discussing trends in Scottish productivity as part of a much larger UK project. Expect to hear much more about the subject from the Scottish Government in the next few months.
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