Chairman of Scottish affairs committee said
Alex Salmond’s ‘cavalier’ plan to renege on Scotland’s debts would ‘poison’
negotiations with UK
Mr
Salmond has insisted monetary union with rest of UK would go ahead
Scotland will be left without any weapons to defend
itself if it votes for independence and refuses to take on its share of UK
debt, an MP has warned.
Ian Davidson, the chairman of the
influential Scottish affairs committee, said that Alex Salmond’s ‘cavalier’
plan to renege on Scotland’s debts if he does not get his way on the pound
would ‘poison’ negotiations with the UK.
He warned that Scotland would be denied
access to military equipment and could be left with ‘a navy with no ships, an
air force with no planes and an army with no guns’.
Mr Salmond has been under intense
pressure to give details of an alternative if Westminster does not agree to the
share the pound, but he has said he has no intention of proposing a ‘plan B’.
All three main UK parties have promised
to veto a currency union if Scotland votes for independence on 18 September.
But Mr Salmond has insisted that
monetary union with the rest of the UK would go ahead and promised not to help
repay British debt if it does not.
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