Alan Henderson wrote:


Alan, remember the lessons of prohibition. Black markets are created by the stupidity of politicians trying to do something. That something is always meddling with market forces.

Alan, yes they are trying to do something, but it's the wrong thing. The road to Hell is paved with good intentions. What I see here is a structural problem in the Scottish Government. Their raison d'etre is independence and therefore anyone who does not share that view must, by definition, be trying to undermine them and their core belief - so they don't listen even when they're getting good advice on subjects completely unrelated to the independence argument.

It could be argued that all policies are interlinked so they do lead to the independence argument. But, when a policy is in the formulation stage it is not interlinked so debate can take place on the basis of that exclusive policy and as the First Minister has said himself, the SNP 'don't have the monopoly on wisdom'. Perhaps he should start heeding his own advice.