Scotland is not a junk country and would not have a junk credit rating
YOUR correspondent Gavin R Tait asks "if one assumes that all tax receipts up to the date of independence pass to the Westminster Treasury" where will his salary as a public employee come from (Letters, February 25)?
YOUR correspondent Gavin R Tait asks \"if one assumes that all tax receipts up to the date of independence pass to the Westminster Treasury\" where will his salary as a public employee come from (Letters, February 25)?
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Why would he assume such a thing?
I suspect it would not be beyond the wit of even this Westminster Government to come to an arrangement with the Scottish Government to bridge the transition to independence, unless we are to assume malice from politicians in London.
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Scotland is not a junk country and would not have a junk credit rating
YOUR correspondent Gavin R Tait asks "if one assumes that all tax receipts up to the date of independence pass to the Westminster Treasury" where will his salary as a public employee come from (Letters, February 25)?
Why would he assume such a thing?
I suspect it would not be beyond the wit of even this Westminster Government to come to an arrangement with the Scottish Government to bridge the transition to independence, unless we are to assume malice from politicians in London.
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