Letters: Risks massively outweigh the hard slog independence would require
Andrew Wilson’s Growth report predicted at least 10 years before a new currency could be established ROBIN McAlpine gives the example of converting vending machines to accept new coins to suggest that the issues that would have to be overcome by an independent Scotland are not difficult ("Independence would not be easy but Scots could pull it off", The Herald, December 11). It is a very strange example, particularly in an increasingly cashless society. He uses this example to support his proposition that the decision to become independent may be difficult but, once taken, implementing tha...