"After 14 years of SNP rule, campaigning purely for independence, Nicola Sturgeon still cannot answer these questions." National columnist Shona Craven responded that Boris Johnson "made a huge tactical error" by coming out today to shut down demands for independence. She then told Hague: "To dismiss the Scottish public as stupid and ill-informed isn't very democratic." Hague responded: "None of those are words I've used of course. It is the typical argument from the nationalists. "What we are asking the nationalists to do is be honest wit people of Scotland about the implications of Scotland being independence. "Those are very real when it comes to economics!"