Up for debate
One would have thought that the historical fact that the Scottish people awoke on 1 May, 1707, with the news quite literally ringing in their ears that their nation's political independence had been signed away without their democratic consent by the parcel of rogues would have taught someone as erudite as him that the British state only does democracy when it suits.
He is correct, however, to suggest that the proposals in this bill should act as a catalyst for a wide-ranging debate on what would be the fairest and most beneficial model of fiscal autonomy for Scotland's economic future.
COLIN C I DOUGLAS
Mansfield Road, Scone, Perthshire