Did you meet a bloke called Alex Salmond or the politician who championed gay marriage through the Scottish Parliament and wrote a manifesto based on equality, opportunity and using trade and wealth creation to provide social justice?

Just asking, because over the last few months, they are the things you say you hold in contempt...

Instead of talking about narrowing the gap, I was too busy creating new sustainable jobs for many years, including 35 new expanding business jobs in Airdre and Cumbernauld back in the '90s, not to mention a few thousand worldwide. The consortium who bought me out still do in fact.

Don't lecture in areas you don't understand. I accept you might believe his ideas on how to create wealth, but he is a politician and oil industry economist. Neither being too well suited to explaining how an independent Scotland works.

Even if you take his well meaning wish for social justice as a positive, which it is, and even if you agree with him that only an independent Scotland cam deliver it, which is pushing the bounds of fantasy but let's give him the benefit of the doubt...

One simple statement says it all. When pushed on the subject of currency union, he said that the UK government would have to negotiate with him because he would have a mandate from the Scottish people for them to have to.

If the leader of The SNP doesn't understand what independence means, we can't expect the little people to comprehend it. So I shan't shout you down Alex, not on this, because it is not nice to blame people for not understanding.