stories about financial meltdown and international socioeconomic exclusion, unionists get down to busily creating the "uncertainty" in the commercial and industrial sphere that you purport to "warn" of. Every time there's a referendum: that is the unionist message to every company and firm here and abroad. Three times, the Westminster parties and foam-at-the-mooth unionists have colluded in actively promoting the big economic lie, seeing any damage you cause to Scotland's reputation as a place to dobusiness as an acceptable price for us in Scotland to pay. Very true. There was some poor management in the 70's but the short sighted power crazed UK unions crippled the industries providing the jobs their members relied on. The UK automotive unions now are the opposite and give us a competitive edge over other countries. This is a popular claim and easily refuted. The city of London books profits and pays taxes as the city of London in London. Those profits however are the entirety of their profits and taxes across the whole of their nationwide operations and their operations elsewhere in so far as the profits are repatriated and not hidden off shore. The profits of the Barclays bank in Swansea and the taxes paid upon them appear in London, not as a separate Swansea or Welsh tax. Don't be silly they respond, we don't mean that nonsense of a loss making high street branch in Mwmbls we mean the city offices, the London investment banks where the real profits are made, not