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It appears that a different set of economic laws prevail in Scotland, if one studies this BBC report. On the one hand it is suggested that Mr Broon’s (utterly pathetic and entirely inadequate) VAT temporary reduction will save some thousands of jobs, but on the other it is argued that if the UK exchequer had just handed over a mere £1bn to Mr Salmond and his SNP pals, this would have “created or saved” (nice weasel words there, btw) double this number of jobs. At every point the working assumption is that Scotland is special and needs more money. Why? I suppose the BBC loves the fact that Scotland has a public sector that provides more than 51% of Scottish GDP and so anything that further builds this dependency will always get a sympathetic hearing.