EDIT: Totally misread Jom's reply I thought he said me clutching at straws. My apologies.
Also to your sources my friend, beyond the BBC news snippets, and the articles that show the SNP either totally ignoring the reports findings in their statements and not giving out any detail about how they plan to counter it. We have such gems as this:
Mr Swinney will argue Chancellor George Osborne's strategy has placed "too much emphasis on austerity, and not enough on promoting growth".
He will argue that all the blame for last week's GDP figures - which revealed the UK economy shrank more than expected at the end of last year - cannot be attributed to the eurozone crisishttp://news.stv.tv/scotland/295450-e...ty-snp-claims/"Much of the responsibility for the lack of economic growth must therefore be laid at the door of 11 Downing Street.
http://www.scotsman.com/news/politic...ning-1-3192186to follow a better path from the current Westminster system which stifles growth and is responsible for the damaging economic decisions this report, and its projections, are based on
It's a card they keep using, but alas don't actually concentrate on what matters- the reality of things. We can argue all day back and forth about what happened, and why a finance or London based economy has led us into this mess. But the reality for Independence is this. And the SNP in particular don't seem to want to talk about that part yet. A minor problem though, as that's what matters to the electorate.