Daily Mail
"Will Scotland – which, assuming that it took responsibility for its share of total UK debt, would start life £140billion in the red – be immediately faced with a Greek-style borrowing crisis? Crucially, how will it cope without the estimated £10billion-a-year subsidy it receives from the English taxpayer – money Mr Salmond uses to fund free care for the elderly and waive tuition fees? Indeed, experts say that even if all North Sea oil and gas revenues had been allocated to Scotland, the country would still have run a deficit for the past 18 years. Add these deeply serious warnings to the positive case for maintaining a union which has served the English and Scottish people well for 300 years and Mr Cameron has an irresistible argument.
It is now up to him – and perhaps the less provocative advocates he selects – to persuade voters north of the Border. The Mail fervently hopes that, when confronted with what they stand to lose, the Scots will deliver a resounding No to Mr Salmond.
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