Danny Alexander will answer your Referendum questions during a live Facebook chat on Thursday (21 August) from 6pm.
The referendum on 18 September 2014 is the most important decision to face Scottish people in 300 years. You have a right to know what it will mean for you.
To help you get the information you need to make a decision, Danny Alexander, Chief Secretary to the Treasury, will be on hand to answer your questions in a live Facebook chat on Thursday 21 August at 6pm.
Thursday’s ‘chat’ with Danny Alexander will be hosted on the YouDecide Facebook page and will last for thirty minutes.
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THE Treasury’s long-awaited, heavily trailed assessment of an independent Scotland’s finances was badly holed before Danny Alexander finally stepped blinking into the TV lights in front of a backdrop saying:
“Why we’re better together: 1400 reasons.”
Even before its publication, Professor Patrick Dunleavy, a political scientist and public policy expert at the London School of Economics, had comprehensively trashed a claim in the report (based, in a highly cavalier fashion, as it turned out, on his work) that the start-up costs of an independent Scotland could be as high as £2.7 billion. The Treasury’s approach was “crude,” he said. Its report “woefully misapplied” his own research on the costs of creating new government departments. He later guesstimated (his word) the real costs an independent Scotland would face at between £150 million and £300m in various press interviews, a fraction even of the Treasury’s more cautious ‘official’ estimate of £1.5bn.
http://www.heraldscotland.com/comment/columnists/treasury-shot-danny-alexander-in-the-foot.24344580
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/almost-500000-public-sector-jobs-face-1073193#.U-9PO6p13Gw.facebook