IF you're feeling a bit zonked by the ongoing row over an independent Scotland's membership of the EU console yourself with this thought: if MSPs weren't battling over Brussels they would be in the middle of an equally abstruse argument about referendum campaign funding.
Nicola Sturgeon used her speech to the SNP conference a couple of weeks ago to warn that the Government may not accept the advice of the impartial Electoral Commission watchdog on how much campaign organisations, political parties, interested groups and individuals should be allowed to spend in the immediate run-up to the vote.The Government would take the final decision, she stressed – "a decision that guarantees a level playing field".
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