"It appears that the summer offensive, which will now be an autumn one, is aimed at persuading No voters to change. That is fine, but we also need to give the Yes movement a boost, because it has taken a battering in the last few weeks, and especially with GERS (Government Expenditure and Revenue Scotland) figures," Sillars said.
Questions have been raised as to whether an independent Scotland could sustain itself economically after the latest Government Expenditure and Revenue Scotland (GERS) statistics published in August showed an independent Scotland would run an annual deficit of 15 billion pounds ($19.9 billion) based on current state expenditure.
Scottish independence supporters claim there is nothing unusual about running a national deficit and point to the fact that the UK budget deficit is six times that of Scotland’s.
In September 2015 a referendum held exclusively in Scotland rejected independence from the United Kingdom by a margin of 55 percent to 45 percent. Opinion polls taken since that 2014 vote have showed that public opinion in Scotland has remained largely unchanged. Nonetheless the pro-independence SNP remains the dominant political force in Scotland with 63 elected representatives at the Scottish Parliament and 56 members of parliament in Westminster.
