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Tonight: The Bank of England steps into the debate over currency in an | :00:09. | :00:11. | |
independent Scotland. Governor Mark Carney reveals his | :00:12. | :00:13. | |
bank IS making plans in the event of a referendum yes vote, and says | :00:14. | :00:17. | |
stability will continue, whatever happens. | :00:18. | :00:18. | |
day, the First Minister, Alex Salmond, is here to answer | :00:19. | :00:30. | |
Also on the programme, Scotland's jobless | :00:31. | :00:32. | |
figure is in freefall, as the number of people in work reaches a record | :00:33. | :00:35. | |
high. Who's right on disability welfare? | :00:36. | :00:37. | |
The SNP say a hundred thousand will lose benefits under UK-wide reform, | :00:38. | :00:40. | |
but Westminster says the system needed to change. | :00:41. | :00:42. | |
Locals say they're horrified after a triple theft at one of Orkney's most | :00:43. | :00:49. | |
famous and sacred landmarks. And the referees union say they hope | :00:50. | :00:52. | |
to avoid a strike in a dispute over pay. | :00:53. | :01:15. | |
Good Evening. The Governor of the Bank England has confirmed that it | :01:16. | :01:18. | |
does have a contingency plan in the event of a yes vote in the | :01:19. | :01:21. | |
referendum. Mark Carney refused to reveal what the plans are but said | :01:22. | :01:24. | |
the Bank would continue to maintain stability in the banking system | :01:25. | :01:27. | |
whatever the result. I'll be speaking to the First Minister Alex | :01:28. | :01:30. | |
Salmond about that in a moment, but first, here's our Economics | :01:31. | :01:32. | |
It is the job of the Bank of England to make us feel assured. We do have | :01:33. | :02:34. | |
contingency plans. The announcement confirmed what most people expected | :02:35. | :02:40. | |
that the bank is making contingency plans in case that is a yes vote in | :02:41. | :02:51. | |
September. What the bank of England is trying to do is make sure that | :02:52. | :02:58. | |
nobody panics and either side of the border if there is a yes foot in | :02:59. | :03:05. | |
September. They are worried people might withdraw their money if there | :03:06. | :03:08. | |
is a yes vote while the ghost sessions take place. We know that a | :03:09. | :03:21. | |
currency union will not happen and it will not be agreed by the rest of | :03:22. | :03:26. | |
the United Kingdom let alone work for Scotland. Scotland would have | :03:27. | :03:29. | |
less economic freedom and less economic sovereignty and less | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
ability to affect our own destiny than we have at the moment. For a | :03:35. | :03:42. | |
period after the referendum we set out for an 18 month period. In that | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
period Scotland will remain part of the United Kingdom and the Bank of | :03:47. | :03:58. | |
England will have the responsibility for that sovereignty. The | :03:59. | :04:08. | |
announcement from the Bank of England today strikes a different | :04:09. | :04:14. | |
tone to what the government in the UK have been saying. Is it not a bit | :04:15. | :04:23. | |
strange that the governor of the Bank of England I'm making | :04:24. | :04:31. | |
contingency plans and you are not? What he has said today is very | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
helpful and shows he is hoping to ensure financial stability and what | :04:37. | :04:42. | |
a contrast to the views of the Westminster parties. He has also yet | :04:43. | :04:48. | |
again corrected idea that he was against a currency union. He will | :04:49. | :04:52. | |
implement what ever disagreed. We should also look at what is causing | :04:53. | :04:59. | |
the instability which is the adamant refusal of the Westminster parties | :05:00. | :05:04. | |
to countenance a currency union which is the preferred option of | :05:05. | :05:09. | |
most of the Scottish people. To be fair, that is your opinion. A survey | :05:10. | :05:17. | |
yesterday showed it was the vast majority of Scottish people believe | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
that is what will happen following a yes vote. Well done to Mark Carney | :05:22. | :05:36. | |
for doing this. This evening for major financial institutions have | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
told the BBC that they fear what they call deposit from Scottish | :05:41. | :05:52. | |
banks in the aftermath of yes vote. Why is Mark Carney having to steady | :05:53. | :05:58. | |
the horses when you are not? He is doing what he should do in his job. | :05:59. | :06:07. | |
The fear of deposit flight is caused by financial rescue where a currency | :06:08. | :06:17. | |
other than sterling would be used. Where I think it would be useful for | :06:18. | :06:21. | |
us to clarify and for the debate to be clarified is that the Westminster | :06:22. | :06:26. | |
parties are not stop Scotland using the pound. That is our currency. | :06:27. | :06:31. | |
They are trying to stop us having access to the Bank of England. It is | :06:32. | :06:38. | |
a shared asset and the nationalised in 1946 which holds about 27% of the | :06:39. | :06:45. | |
vast debts. That is a financial asset and they cannot claim all of | :06:46. | :06:50. | |
it without taking responsibility for the financial liability of the debt | :06:51. | :06:56. | |
and is that message gets across, not just the responsibility of | :06:57. | :07:00. | |
incredible nature of the Westminster party and their incredible position | :07:01. | :07:10. | |
on the matter. The idea that they would damage the economy of England | :07:11. | :07:14. | |
and take on all of the national debt by refusing to give us access to the | :07:15. | :07:20. | |
assets is an incredible position. That is a position which is | :07:21. | :07:22. | |
irresponsible and they should stop now. Let us assume that the other | :07:23. | :07:28. | |
parties are bluffing and that is monetary union. The Bank of England | :07:29. | :07:35. | |
with those assets will be running the Scottish economy. That is not | :07:36. | :07:45. | |
independence. The Bank of England is independent of government policy. It | :07:46. | :07:51. | |
sets interest rates which the government does not do. We have | :07:52. | :07:58. | |
published plans to increase spending by 3% rather than the Westminster | :07:59. | :08:03. | |
plans which are 1%. That is the sort of policy that will help us save and | :08:04. | :08:09. | |
invest in our health service. It will look after the majority but not | :08:10. | :08:13. | |
the people who live in Scotland. It will determine interest rates for | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
them and not for us. Why should it if we are independent? That is the | :08:19. | :08:26. | |
financial policy setting interest rates. We will control 100% of our | :08:27. | :08:34. | |
fiscal policy. That will govern our spending as opposed to having it | :08:35. | :08:39. | |
dictated to us as it is at the current time by Westminster. The | :08:40. | :08:46. | |
difference between the Scottish able to able to decide to invest in a | :08:47. | :08:48. | |
National Health Service or alternatively be at the mercy of the | :08:49. | :08:56. | |
privatisation agenda with a cap backs -- cutbacks which I propose. | :08:57. | :09:11. | |
-- which are proposed. Nicola Sturgeon said that many people are | :09:12. | :09:23. | |
in danger of losing their benefits. Is that not Project Fear? Spending | :09:24. | :09:35. | |
on the health service in England has been going up. You know that as well | :09:36. | :09:42. | |
as I do. The Labour Party in England say that is a huge privatisation | :09:43. | :09:48. | |
agenda. You always agree with the Labour Party? No, but we can see the | :09:49. | :09:55. | |
disintegration and fragmentation that has happened which is designed | :09:56. | :09:58. | |
to reduce spending on the health service. For every ?10 spent in | :09:59. | :10:09. | |
England, Scotland gets ?1. If you reduce the health service in | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
England, there is a knock on consequence in Scotland. We say to | :10:14. | :10:19. | |
reinforce that, there should be constitutional protection which | :10:20. | :10:22. | |
would build that into the new constitution. The United Kingdom | :10:23. | :10:28. | |
does not have a written constitution. We want a written | :10:29. | :10:31. | |
constitution that gives a constitutional guarantee for the | :10:32. | :10:37. | |
health service on the night Bevan principle. --Nye Bevan. You have | :10:38. | :10:56. | |
been proposing more money in people 's pockets. Would it not have been | :10:57. | :11:03. | |
more honest to say that independence is risky and will be a lot of | :11:04. | :11:08. | |
negotiation. It might not be a straightforward proposal. It might | :11:09. | :11:13. | |
even cost a bit more and taxes might have to go up in the short-term. | :11:14. | :11:19. | |
Would that not have been more honest to say, if independence was that | :11:20. | :11:25. | |
important? A week or two ago I made a speech saying that we would not | :11:26. | :11:30. | |
promise that would be free taps with whiskey, oil and water in every | :11:31. | :11:33. | |
Scottish household. We would not promise that would be free taps with | :11:34. | :11:36. | |
whiskey, oil and water in every Scottish household. We're saying | :11:37. | :11:38. | |
that by taking charge of our financial destiny, over a period of | :11:39. | :11:41. | |
time working together by investing in the right things, we can marshal | :11:42. | :11:45. | |
resources in this country with the fantastic people assets in this | :11:46. | :11:49. | |
country and build a more prosperous and more just society. We do not say | :11:50. | :11:55. | |
that will happen overnight but you are far more likely to end up of the | :11:56. | :11:59. | |
public health service free at the point of need, available for older | :12:00. | :12:02. | |
people, if that is what you want to do. But that is not under threat | :12:03. | :12:10. | |
anywhere. I disagree. I think the privatisation agenda site of the | :12:11. | :12:15. | |
border is destroying the health service. The health service here | :12:16. | :12:22. | |
sends people to private hospitals. Our objective is not to reduce | :12:23. | :12:28. | |
expenditure on the public health service and we feel we stay in the | :12:29. | :12:35. | |
present system, matters south of the border will affect Scotland. We want | :12:36. | :12:39. | |
to ensure that our public health service remains free at the point of | :12:40. | :12:46. | |
provision as is -- and is guaranteed. You have had one major | :12:47. | :12:57. | |
debate with Alistair Darling. The consensus was that she hadn't maybe | :12:58. | :13:04. | |
not performed as well as you could perform. Do you feel you did as well | :13:05. | :13:09. | |
as you could have? I adopted a tone which I hope is more conversational | :13:10. | :13:14. | |
in terms of expanding issues and I would like to have more time as we | :13:15. | :13:19. | |
have had tonight to explain why we cannot be stopped from using our | :13:20. | :13:22. | |
currency and the various options that were laid out in the White | :13:23. | :13:28. | |
Paper. We will have lots more opportunities and you can be | :13:29. | :13:30. | |
absolutely certain that the yes campaign in general and myself in | :13:31. | :13:34. | |
particular are up for it. And on tomorrow night's programme | :13:35. | :13:41. | |
we'll hear from the other side of the debate - Alistair Darling will | :13:42. | :13:44. | |
be here in the studio for a live interview. And if you'd like more on | :13:45. | :13:47. | |
the referendum, then tune in to Radio Scotland on medium wave or | :13:48. | :13:50. | |
digital at 11 for Referendum Tonight, or head online to | :13:51. | :13:53. | |
bbc.co.uk/scotlanddecides. You're watching Reporting Scotland | :13:54. | :13:54. | |
from the BBC. Still to come on In sport: Could Scotland's football | :13:55. | :14:06. | |
refs be about to strike again. And Scotland's silver track stars are | :14:07. | :14:18. | |
into the semis of the European Scotland has reached a record high. | :14:19. | :14:21. | |
The latest official figures show employment is up by over 60,000 in | :14:22. | :14:45. | |
the year and unemployment has fallen too. Here's our business | :14:46. | :14:48. | |
correspondent, David Henderson. At this Jobcentre in Glasgow this | :14:49. | :14:50. | |
morning staff were helping match job-seekers | :14:51. | :15:02. | |
with vacancies. in new call centre jobs and in | :15:03. | :15:02. | |
hotels and restaurants. In recent months the economy has shown signs | :15:03. | :15:14. | |
of recovery so employers have been taking on new staff, and here, they | :15:15. | :15:33. | |
have noticed a rise in the number of available. The number of people in | :15:34. | :15:36. | |
Scotland who are out of work and looking for a job has fallen this | :15:37. | :15:41. | |
month, to 176,000 and, at the same time the workforce has risen again | :15:42. | :15:45. | |
by 9000 to a record high. So the Scottish unemployment rate is now | :15:46. | :15:48. | |
6.4%, the same as for the UK. Staff at the Jobcentre have noticed that | :15:49. | :15:51. | |
some employers seem more confident During | :15:52. | :15:54. | |
the recession part-time and temporary vacancies increased but | :15:55. | :16:00. | |
certainly we are seeing that trend turn around and more and more | :16:01. | :16:02. | |
vacancies coming on are permanent and full-time. There are still | :16:03. | :16:29. | |
part-time vacancies, it suits a lot people. The jobs market is fluid, | :16:30. | :16:32. | |
like this when shop in Barrhead. Peter Rosenthal is one of a record | :16:33. | :16:38. | |
number of self-employed Scottish people, the tops up his work here | :16:39. | :16:41. | |
with wine-tasting classes and consultancy work. Coming from a | :16:42. | :16:43. | |
background where I had a job that gave me an income every single | :16:44. | :16:46. | |
month, the mortgage would be paid, you knew that, that transition to | :16:47. | :16:49. | |
being in a work position where if the work is not covered,you don't | :16:50. | :16:52. | |
get paid, the mortgage does not get paid. Some of the new jobs we have | :16:53. | :16:55. | |
seen may be seasonal because of the Commonwealth Games but long-term | :16:56. | :16:59. | |
the outlook is good. More than 100,000 people in Scotland | :17:00. | :17:03. | |
will lose disability benefits under UK-wide welfare changes, according | :17:04. | :17:06. | |
to new analysis by the Scottish Government. The deputy First | :17:07. | :17:23. | |
Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, says the cuts are "simply wrong". But UK | :17:24. | :17:25. | |
ministers say the old system needed reform. Here's our political | :17:26. | :17:28. | |
correspondent, Glenn Campbell. as a blind person, he also suffers | :17:29. | :17:50. | |
from heart disease, diabetes and | :17:51. | :17:53. | |
depression. Most people feel vulnerable and the | :17:54. | :17:57. | |
disabled person and we feel bad that we are being | :17:58. | :18:00. | |
branded as, you know, scroungers or a burden to society. And that is | :18:01. | :18:02. | |
what it feels like. That you have now become a burden to society | :18:03. | :18:05. | |
because we are in a recession. It is no fault of disabled people. He is | :18:06. | :18:09. | |
one of 190,000 people who receive disability living allowance at the | :18:10. | :18:12. | |
moment. By 2018 the Scottish Government estimates that more than | :18:13. | :18:14. | |
half of them will lose at least The benefits are | :18:15. | :18:17. | |
being phased out and replaced by the personal independence payment. The | :18:18. | :18:23. | |
cuts that are being implemented are hitting very hard some of the most | :18:24. | :18:25. | |
vulnerable disabled people, they have been disproportionately hit by | :18:26. | :18:31. | |
these cuts. don't seem to care much about the | :18:32. | :18:32. | |
impact of these cuts. But visiting an ice cream shop in Dundee, the | :18:33. | :18:38. | |
Scottish Secretary claimed SNP ministers were not guaranteeing a | :18:39. | :18:44. | |
sweeter deal to those on benefits. The Scottish Government see that | :18:45. | :18:46. | |
there is a need for welfare reform. What they never do is tell us how | :18:47. | :18:50. | |
that should be done. And unless and until they come forward with | :18:51. | :18:54. | |
proposals, they are frankly criticising and it looks like cheap | :18:55. | :18:56. | |
exploitation of people's legitimate fear. The | :18:57. | :19:00. | |
Scottish Government argue that a vote for independence would help us | :19:01. | :19:02. | |
stop the shift away from the disability living allowance and the | :19:03. | :19:05. | |
zany fear and wealthier system but those who want Scotland to stay | :19:06. | :19:20. | |
within the union say that social protection is better organised | :19:21. | :19:24. | |
across the UK, drawing on the tax contributions from a much larger | :19:25. | :19:27. | |
economy. The were at Ibrox after a | :19:28. | :19:43. | |
46-year-old man was too loosely injured in attack. | :19:44. | :20:19. | |
--The police were called after a 46-year-old man was | :20:20. | :20:21. | |
Tickets for the 50th birthday party of the Forth Road Bridge will go on | :20:22. | :20:41. | |
general sale on Friday. There will be a torchlight procession on | :20:42. | :20:45. | |
September the 13th. There will be bands playing and a firework | :20:46. | :20:46. | |
display. Thieves have caused outrage | :20:47. | :20:54. | |
in Orkney, after stealing artefacts Three wooden plaques representing | :20:55. | :20:56. | |
the Stations of the Cross have been removed from the former Nissen hut - | :20:57. | :21:00. | |
which was converted into a place of worship by prisoners | :21:01. | :21:03. | |
of war during the Second World War. This modest building was given a | :21:04. | :21:18. | |
special blessing earlier in the year. Today it was not mass but | :21:19. | :21:28. | |
fingerprints that were being taken. It was hit by vandals back in June. | :21:29. | :21:31. | |
Three wooden plaques representing the Stations of the Cross have been | :21:32. | :21:34. | |
removed from the former Nissen hut - which was converted into a place | :21:35. | :21:37. | |
of worship by prisoners of war, during the Second World War. | :21:38. | :21:40. | |
They portray incidents in Christ's journey to the cross. | :21:41. | :21:47. | |
The wartime chapel is the most popular tourist attraction | :21:48. | :21:49. | |
in Orkney with more than 100,000 visitors a year. | :21:50. | :21:59. | |
The 14 plaques were a gift from the chapel's creator Domenico | :22:00. | :22:08. | |
Police have appealed to the public for help in tracing the artefacts. | :22:09. | :22:17. | |
Additional security would come at a cost and not just a monetary one. It | :22:18. | :22:28. | |
would change the atmosphere entirely in here. It is a place which is open | :22:29. | :22:34. | |
for the public to admire and it would give a different atmosphere | :22:35. | :22:43. | |
altogether. Securing the chapel while maintaining its simplicity is | :22:44. | :22:47. | |
a major challenge. Former top referee Stuart Dougal | :22:48. | :23:04. | |
says current officials should be paid more for taking charge | :23:05. | :23:06. | |
of Championship matches involving Rangers, Hearts and Hibs to avoid | :23:07. | :23:09. | |
the threat of strike action. Refs are disgruntled that these | :23:10. | :23:14. | |
high profile matches pay ?645 Four years ago they went | :23:15. | :23:17. | |
on strike when their integrity was called into question - this time | :23:18. | :23:20. | |
their grievance is over wages. Referees taking charge of | :23:21. | :23:37. | |
championship matches receive a different amount to those taking | :23:38. | :23:47. | |
charge of other games. The spoils for the victors will probably be | :23:48. | :23:52. | |
greater because it will be a passport into the Premier League. We | :23:53. | :23:59. | |
should get our Premier League wage for doing Premier League matches. | :24:00. | :24:13. | |
Will the referees strike? I do not think that will happen but we need | :24:14. | :24:19. | |
to sit down together. The chairman of the Scottish cup Max senior | :24:20. | :24:26. | |
Football Referees Association issued this statement. --Scottish Senior | :24:27. | :25:08. | |
Football Referees Association. We'll know within 24 hours if Celtic | :25:09. | :25:32. | |
are to remain in the Champions League qualifiers. Legia Warsaw's | :25:33. | :25:35. | |
appeal against Celtic's reinstatement in the competition at | :25:36. | :25:36. | |
the Polish club's expense was heard this morning. Legia were punished | :25:37. | :25:39. | |
for bringing on a substitute, who was ineligible, in the second leg of | :25:40. | :25:42. | |
their tie against the Scottish champions. | :25:43. | :25:45. | |
Celtic begin the defence of their premiership title tonight away to St | :25:46. | :25:46. | |
Johnstone. There's coverage of that and tonight's five other premiership | :25:47. | :25:49. | |
matches on BBC Radio Scotland 810 medium wave on line and on digital. | :25:50. | :25:51. | |
The show is on air now. Hibernian's owner Sir Tom Farmer has | :25:52. | :25:55. | |
turned down a take-ever bid came from a consortium headed | :25:56. | :25:57. | |
by financial adviser David Low. Hibs say accepting | :25:58. | :26:01. | |
the bid was not was not Scotland's two track silver medal | :26:02. | :26:03. | |
winners from Glasgow 2014 are through to the semi finals | :26:04. | :26:07. | |
of the European championships. Lynsey Sharp won her eight hundred | :26:08. | :26:09. | |
meters heat in Zurich comfortably. through to the semi finals | :26:10. | :26:12. | |
of the European championships. Eilidh Child was also first | :26:13. | :26:14. | |
in her 400 metres hurdles heat. Andy Murray's through to the third | :26:15. | :26:18. | |
round of the Cinncinatti Masters tennis. | :26:19. | :26:22. | |
Murray beating the world number 37, Joaw Sousa of Portugal, in straight | :26:23. | :26:23. | |
sets this afternoon, six-three, There will still be a breeze | :26:24. | :26:39. | |
tomorrow. If you escaped today with a and bright conditions. , those | :26:40. | :26:52. | |
showers could well be heavy and there will be brighter skies. You | :26:53. | :26:56. | |
will be unlucky if you catch a heavy shower. It will be around 20 degrees | :26:57. | :27:00. | |
in the sunshine and the best of the sun is likely around the coastline | :27:01. | :27:04. | |
but up towards the far north it will be cloudy with showers and a similar | :27:05. | :27:09. | |
story for the Northern Isles that there will be brighter glances at | :27:10. | :27:14. | |
times. Those heavy showers continue to work their way down to England so | :27:15. | :27:21. | |
the risk of a heavy downpour or two. Friday starts off reasonably dry and | :27:22. | :27:29. | |
as we head towards the afternoon some decent dry and bright and sunny | :27:30. | :27:35. | |
spells around. This ridge of high pressure is the reason. As we head | :27:36. | :27:39. | |
towards the weekend, low-pressure arrives and the weather will return | :27:40. | :27:45. | |
in a decidedly unsettled fashion. Saturday will be a breezy day with | :27:46. | :27:50. | |
rain across Western and southwestern parts of the country. The further | :27:51. | :27:55. | |
east you are the dryer it will be but those unsettled conditions will | :27:56. | :28:01. | |
remain through till Sunday. The Governor of the Bank of England, | :28:02. | :28:08. | |
Mark Carney, said he has a contingency plan for a yes vote. | :28:09. | :28:15. | |
Alex Salmond on this programme welcomed this. | :28:16. | :28:19. | |
And that's Reporting Scotland. You can watch tonight's interview with | :28:20. | :28:22. | |
the First Minister on our website - and on tomorrow night's programme | :28:23. | :28:24. |