:00:00. > :00:00.We will have more for you in one hour.
:00:00. > :00:15.Now on BBC News, Scotland Decides, Review of the Week, with James Cook.
:00:16. > :00:17.Hello and welcome to our look back at the
:00:18. > :00:20.past seven days of the referendum campaign trail in Scotland.
:00:21. > :00:28.A leading figure in the oil industry says the Scottish
:00:29. > :00:31.Government is overstating the remaining wealth in the North Sea.
:00:32. > :00:33.The row over currency continues with arguments about whether
:00:34. > :00:35.and how an independent Scotland could use the pound.
:00:36. > :00:38.And what has this internet craze got to do with the referendum?
:00:39. > :00:39.Hello and welcome to Scotland Decides:
:00:40. > :00:43.The campaign has continued to focus on the practicalities
:00:44. > :00:53.We'll come to currency in a moment, but first, a respected figure in the
:00:54. > :00:58.oil industry, Sir Ian Wood, said the Scottish Government was overstating
:00:59. > :01:01.the amount of oil and gas left in the North Sea, and therefore was far
:01:02. > :01:05.too optimistic about the amount of tax revenue it would bring to the
:01:06. > :01:17.I do not think it is my job to say to anybody and to influence anybody
:01:18. > :01:28.about how to vote at I feel it is my responsibility, especially as my
:01:29. > :01:32.great when children in Scotland will grow up here. If we are to make this
:01:33. > :01:37.decision, we must make it on the right facts and there is a big hole
:01:38. > :01:42.right now in terms of the estimate of the amount of oil and gas and how
:01:43. > :01:46.The subject dominated the final First Minister's Questions
:01:47. > :01:48.before the vote, with the Scottish Labour leader Johann Lamont
:01:49. > :02:00.Most operators would feel more confident if Scotland was to remain
:02:01. > :02:07.part of the UK, he said. So I asked the First Minister, why was he drawn
:02:08. > :02:10.to say that if the interests of our children and the generations to
:02:11. > :02:13.But Scotland's First Minister Alex Salmond insisted
:02:14. > :02:16.his forecasts were based on industry figures, quoted by Sir Ian Wood,
:02:17. > :02:19.which suggested between 12 and 24 billion barrels of oil would still
:02:20. > :02:26.His reply to Ms Lamont was laden with sarcasm.
:02:27. > :02:36.This poor country with a great curse of 15 billion barrels of oil! Every
:02:37. > :02:44.other country in the world would give their eyes teeth for such a
:02:45. > :02:47.substance shall source. `` eyeteeth. `` substantial source.
:02:48. > :02:49.Earlier in the week, Mr Salmond had taken his campaign to
:02:50. > :02:52.Arbroath in Angus, where Scottish nobels signed a Declaration of
:02:53. > :02:55.It felt like a change of tack for the Yes campaign,
:02:56. > :02:58.stressing the heart, appealing to the sense of Scotland as a different
:02:59. > :03:02.And that theme was taken up by Professor Joseph Stiglitz, a
:03:03. > :03:04.Nobel prize`winning economist, who advises the Scottish government.
:03:05. > :03:07.He said what he called the two parts of the United Kingdom were already
:03:08. > :03:11.However, Professor Stiglitz also said he believed the rest of the UK
:03:12. > :03:16.would form a formal currency union with an independent Scotland.
:03:17. > :03:18.It was a position backed by his fellow advisor to
:03:19. > :03:24.the Scottish Government, the businessman Crawford Beveridge.
:03:25. > :03:33.I have never gone into a negotiation where I declared what I would be
:03:34. > :03:37.happy to settle for instead of what I wanted to get. So I think it
:03:38. > :03:40.reasonable that the government has to come out with something different
:03:41. > :03:45.until we are certain we cannot do the best thing for Scotland.
:03:46. > :03:47.But campaigners against independence continued to insist they were not
:03:48. > :03:50.bluffing and would not enter into a formal currency union with
:03:51. > :03:53.The success of a currency union, argued the Scottish Secretary,
:03:54. > :04:06.It is about political disintegration. If we are to be
:04:07. > :04:10.independent, we need to be aptly independent and we should not tying
:04:11. > :04:17.ourselves to the currency of the Central Bank `` we need to be
:04:18. > :04:19.There was a different perspective from a free
:04:20. > :04:22.market think tank, which argued that Scotland could thrive if it kept
:04:23. > :04:26.The Adam Smith Institute said economies which use
:04:27. > :04:29.the US dollar without a lender of last resort, such as Panama, had
:04:30. > :04:32.But the chairman of Britain's biggest bank said shunning
:04:33. > :04:35.the benefits of the status quo would be a "giant
:04:36. > :04:38.Writing in the Daily Telegraph, Douglas Flint of HSBC,
:04:39. > :04:41.said doubts over currency could prompt capital flight, or
:04:42. > :04:47.in other words, savers withdrawing their money from Scottish banks.
:04:48. > :04:50.Now, time for our weekly look at the latest polling.
:04:51. > :04:52.And the poll of polls suggests no change since last week.
:04:53. > :04:55.The No campaign remains on 57%, when don't knows are excluded.
:04:56. > :05:02.That's according to an average of half a dozen polls taken in July
:05:03. > :05:08.and August, calculated by the What Scotland Thinks website.
:05:09. > :05:12.Let's take a look at some of the other stories making the news,
:05:13. > :05:16.A former Director General of the BBC described plans for broadcasting
:05:17. > :05:19.in an independent Scotland as "make`believe".
:05:20. > :05:22.Lord Birt's comments in the Guardian were echoed by the No campaign,
:05:23. > :05:25.which said breaking up the BBC would be bad for Scotland
:05:26. > :05:30.The Yes campaign said an independent Scotland would keep BBC programmes,
:05:31. > :05:37.The Australian Prime Minister dipped his toes in the shark`infested
:05:38. > :05:44.Tony Abbott told the Times it was "hard to see how the world would be
:05:45. > :05:48.Alex Salmond said independence from Britain didn't seem to have
:05:49. > :05:54.Scotland's foremost historian, Professor Tom Devine,
:05:55. > :05:57.surprised many by announcing he was backing a "Yes" vote.
:05:58. > :06:00.In an interview with The Observer, Sir Tom said he had switched
:06:01. > :06:03.from No to Yes because Scotland had preserved the British idea
:06:04. > :06:05.of state`supported fairness and compassion, with England moving
:06:06. > :06:13.The Scottish Government this week argued that a No vote
:06:14. > :06:17.in the referendum would put the NHS in Scotland at "serious risk".
:06:18. > :06:20.But the opposition parties say it amounts to nothing more than
:06:21. > :06:22.an attempt to frighten people into voting Yes.
:06:23. > :06:39.The NHS is a life`saving service, highly prized by the public. In
:06:40. > :06:44.Scotland, the NHS is under Holyrood's control but the way in
:06:45. > :06:49.which public services like health funded is directly linked to the
:06:50. > :06:55.amount of money that is spent on the same services in England. In
:06:56. > :07:00.Parliament, the Health Secretary predicted spending cuts to the NHS
:07:01. > :07:05.if England `` in England with a squeeze on Scottish finances as a
:07:06. > :07:10.result. A No vote would be putting our health service at serious risk,
:07:11. > :07:20.reduced budgets as a consequence of privatisation, and austerity South
:07:21. > :07:25.of the border. Yes campaigners say independence would allow us to
:07:26. > :07:27.protect the NHS from cuts and privatisation but the Better
:07:28. > :07:34.Together campaign say we have the power to do so already and the SNP
:07:35. > :07:36.has boasted of that previously. In the chamber, Conservatives said NHS
:07:37. > :07:42.spending in England was riding, Labour accused ministers of
:07:43. > :07:47.scaremongering. `` arising. I want the Cabinet Secretary to focus on
:07:48. > :07:54.his day job and sort out waiting lists, a social care crisis and a
:07:55. > :07:57.lack of GPs, instead of supporting the most scandalous deceit of this
:07:58. > :08:03.referendum campaign. Nationalists say the real scandal is Labour in
:08:04. > :08:08.Scotland is not echoing their warnings on the NHS. In whose hands
:08:09. > :08:10.the health service is safest is now a major issue in the referendum
:08:11. > :08:13.Campaigners for Scottish independence said more than
:08:14. > :08:16.a million people had signed a declaration in favour of a
:08:17. > :08:23.The announcement that Yes Scotland had reached their target of a
:08:24. > :08:26.million signatures four weeks before the vote was made in Edinburgh at an
:08:27. > :08:32.Just over four million people are eligible to vote in the referendum
:08:33. > :08:35.on the yes/no question, should Scotland be an independent country?
:08:36. > :08:37.Campaigners against independence said their rivals had simply
:08:38. > :09:00.On Twitter, this remark, voters explained why they were going for
:09:01. > :09:04.independence. A Scottish actor said because, we can have a say in our
:09:05. > :10:15.future. Macro ``... own challenge with a special twist.
:10:16. > :10:16.I would like to nominate Alistair Darling and Alex Salmond to do their
:10:17. > :10:39.You have 24 hours! The challenge was very worst! Go for
:10:40. > :10:46.You have 24 hours! The challenge was on for the main figures in the
:10:47. > :11:05.Scottish independence referendum debate and let's see who took it
:11:06. > :11:24.one of their team was fighting an incurable disease. Alex Salmond says
:11:25. > :11:24.he will do it also, time and place to be confirmed. For now, you can
:11:25. > :11:38.find more analysis online at our find more analysis online at our
:11:39. > :11:43.website. For now, that's it from the review of the week, I will be back
:11:44. > :11:44.at the same time next week. In a moment a look
:11:45. > :11:44.at how the financial markets in Europe closed the day, but
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