"UK ministers and pro-UK party leaders have repeatedly warned that the Royal Navy will no longer award major warship contracts to Scottish yards if there is a yes vote because it never builds warships outside the UK"

Perfectly correct and I think the warships being referred to here are the new Type 26 Frigates - If Scotland votes for independence they will be built in England or in Northern Ireland.

" Hammond confirmed to the Guardian that work on fitting out the Queen Elizabeth and on building a second carrier, the Prince of Wales, would continue at Rosyth even if Scotland did vote yes in September."

Again perfectly correct as they are existing contracts that would cost too much to cancel plus the fact that construction of the Prince of Wales at Rosyth relies on the Chinese crane on loan to the Yard.

Big Al, so pleased that you see fit to advocate the transfer of jobs away from your native country merely on the premise that English yards aren't very good - Thatcher said the same about coal, yet you castigated her for it.

"I reckon the first thing the Scottish government should be on to is chucking out the English landlords who obtained vast tracts of land in a very questionable style in the clearances."

Ah a Mugabe style land grab eh? That would of course do wonders for any foreign investment the new Scottish Government might like to attract.

As for rich Scottish expats? Any rumours yet of Shurr Shawn leafing through Estate Agents literature? Indeed any talk of him returning his knighthood?