Ed Miliband laid out his vision for Scotland today, which didn’t quite set the heather alight. But word reaches me about what David Cameron is planning. He has already said that if Scotland votes ‘No’ they’d get a special something as a thank-you. But he did not specify what that something was. A bluff, says Alex Salmond, the same lies that Jim Callaghan sold Scotland in the 1970s and the special something was 18 years of Tory government!
But Cameron is working on an offer. Soon, the &”Scottish government” (as Salmond calls his half-government) will control 30 per cent of all money raised in Scotland. Cameron is thinking that, after a ‘no’ result, he’ll raise it to 70 per cent and throw in complete control of income tax. (But not corporation tax, which he assumes Salmond would use as an offensive weapon).
Is this the best present offered to a Scotsman since Ursula Andress came wading out of the Jamaican sea? Hardly.
Fraser Nelson
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