The letters are all A and they shot to prominence yesterday after the leading credit agencies Standard & Poor's, Moody's and Fitch indicated that an independent Scotland could not count on securing the top-notch grading for credit worthiness. None would go on the record about their doubts (as the Scottish Government understandably had not asked them for draft rating guidance) but their reservations were seized by the Unionist parties in Scotland as further evidence that the SNP, in pushing for independence, was gambling with Scotland's future.
Independence and the economy
IT did not take long for political capital to be made from a question of three capitals.
The letters are all A and they shot to prominence yesterday after the leading credit agencies Standard & Poor's, Moody's and Fitch indicated that an independent Scotland could not count on securing the top-notch grading for credit worthiness. None would go on the record about their doubts (as the Scottish Government understandably had not asked them for draft rating guidance) but their reservations were seized by the Unionist parties in Scotland as further evidence that the SNP, in pushing for independence, was gambling with Scotland's future.
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Don't show me this again.