Damien

I think the SNP have only made matters harder for themselves. They're promising too much and skeptical Scots aren't going to be won over by hearing that there won't be any problems, that there will be lower taxes, better pensions and better public services. If they were more honest then they would be easier to trust. Instead Salmond is coming across as a dodgy salesman making claims that are too good to be true, because they are.

He also doesn't seem to have great confidence in the Scot's desire to be Independent. A lot of his white paper is based on the idea that things will remain the same, same monarchy, same currency, fee movement back and forth and so on. If the Scottish want these things they can already have them, it's called the United Kingdom.

Their whole prospectus for Independence simply reads like a particularly disingenuous manifesto for a General Election rather than a vision for a new country.