THE term "warrant sale" catches the eye and stirs emotion.
Whereas warrant sales were abolished in 2001, attachment orders are now used to recover debt.
If an independent Scotland declines to pay its share of national debt, then Westminster - having de facto control of assets - will simply use an attachment order, or equivalent, to seize ownership of assets up to the value of the debt.
Thus a share of the value of UK embassies, armed forces' kit, works of art and so on, would be calculated and placed against outstanding debt. There may or may not be enough thus raised to pay Scotland's share of the national debt.
It may be attractive to an independent Scotland to be thus rendered free of debt, but to decline to pay debt to a third party who is in possession of debtor's assets appears non-viable.
Perhaps I am missing something, but SNP proposals in this and other matters do not make sense. So who is bluffing?
William Durward,
20 South Erskine Park,
Bearsden.
There has been much discussion (and properly so), in the months, weeks, and days, leading up to the referendum, with regard to major issues such as the NHS, currency, EU, Trident, head of state, national defence, devo-max, further education, and much more.
I have been reminded of the words of Lewis Carroll from the poem of The Walrus and the Carpenter:
"'The time has come,' the Walrus said,
To talk of many things:
Of shoes -and ships- and sealing-wax-
Of cabbages -and king -
And why the sea is boiling hot -
And whether pigs have wings."
It is my earnest hope that, in the period after a Yes vote, if such should befall us, we are not forever looking skywards to see how many mammals of the Suidae family are airborne.
Ian W Thomson,
38 Kirkintilloch Road,
Lenzie.
ALEX Salmond has finally persuaded me to vote No.
He has consistently and glibly dismissed everything that any opponent has said, even when they have been talking on subjects about which they have far greater expertise than his.
They are not all wrong all of the time, and Mr Salmond knows that. Therefore he is playing politician at a time when candid facts are required. If he cannot give us the plain truth, there must be a reason, and I can only assume that it is because the truth does not present the picture he wants.
Conclusion: he is not to be trusted. We should vote No.
George Sutherland,
Newton,
Tillirie,
near Kinross.
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