1) I misread Angus's tweet as 'the preposterous papers'. On reflection my 1st reading was bang on.
This article gives us a fascinating insight into how the old adage, that a lie has gone 3 times round the world before the truth has got its boots on, works in reality.
2) Tribal epistemology tells us that for fake news to be created - 4 things need to be in place first. 1. Firstly. you need a completely unsubstantiated lie. In Angus's article we have not 1 but 2 whoppers. Ist being that a Scexit Scotland will be better off than being in the UK
3) All researched evidence suggest that a generation of weapons grade austerity is the most likely outcome of Scexit. The 2nd lie is that Scotland will gain EU membership. EU entry criteria state all members must have a Fiscal Deficit of <3% of GDP, Scotland's FD is 23% of GDP.
1. For leave UK to win it is absolutely vital that inconvenient Scexit economic truths such as loss of Barnet, Deficit, Pop share of UK debt, interest charges on debt, start up costs of new country, foreign currency reserves, capital flight are NEVER brought to the attention
2. of the electorate. Every Scottish based daily has a Nat journalist embedded ensuring that negative Scexit economic articles are never written which ensures that this taboo topic is kept out of public Scexit discourse. This allows them to concentrate exclusively on churning
3.out pro indy articles reinforcing the Nat narrative that a hard Brexit which Scotland didn't vote for + a hard right Bojo premiership = Leave UK as the only option. Seductive though this trope is, the electorate are not being informed of the important information that