10/09/2014 The Papers

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Joining me from Inverness is broadcaster and journalist, Nicky

Marr, and with me in the studio is Professor of Law at Pepperdine

Let's get straight down to it, we will start with the Daily Telegraph.

The front page, economic fears that stop to the Salmond bandwagon. Nikki

in Inverness, this is coming on the same evening, in the last few

minutes, that RBS has suggested it is likely to announce it will shift

its centre operations from Edinburgh down to London. That is a real

shock. The Daily Telegraph and most front pages have gone to print too

early to get the story. It is a worry, RBS, taxpayer owned bank, we

know the story of Fred the shred and this is not the time to rehash that

but it is a worry for jobs in Scotland. The story is that this

opinion poll shows 53% for no and 47% for yes, but still ten

undecided, 10% of Scots undecided and I think that is the key to wear

this referendum is going to be decided. Indeed, the 10% undecided,

do you think that the emotional push made by Cameron, Clegg and Miliband

will have an effect? I was what side of the political

referendum people were sitting on, yes, no, on the fence, there was a

bit of ridicule from all sides at the fact that these three leaders

have realised something is happening in Scotland, they have put up the

saltire and Russian to Scotland to make an emotional plea `` rushed to

Scotland. I little bit condescending and patronising as it "the Scots

will never vote for independence" and quite a view our thinking that

they might. It is a heart and head matter and that is why so many of us

are undecided. I count myself among them. It is a case of what we want

to happen against whether we believe what Salmond is calling the

scaremongering of quite a few big guns. Unfortunately we will have to

lose you in Inverness but we are going to be back. Gutted! Questions

will be asked. Hopefully we can talk to you in an hour. I will be here.

Thank you. Colleen, you are flying solo. I have time to tell Nicky to

vote no because the scaremongering is actually a reality check and I

thought that Danny Alexander, the Chief Secretary to the Treasury, did

an excellent job. His is the key story in the Daily Telegraph where

he mentions that this is the day that the economic case the

separation died. It is clear that the reality of Independence is that

it will cost jobs, investment and growth. That was always a

possibility, that Lloyds and RBS may shift. They might, but now we are

seeing it. Those who are leaning towards voted yes say that they have

factored it in an David Cameron has made it clear that he believes

Scotland could survive on its own. We are also seeing the big guns,

Mark Carney, BP, and others, and we have a mortgage story coming up,

indicating the reality, money saying `` many saying that there has not

been enough concrete information about what will happening

financially. When you have what we are seeing, property prices dropping

and individuals selling their property saying that they are

putting a clause, only if there is a no vote, that is serious. People who

make economic decisions are saying that they need a no vote. The

Financial Times, the big guns wading in as a new poll backs the no camp,

a reference to the opinion poll this evening putting the no camp ahead by

six points. You are saying that the economic tyres are hitting the road

now and this is going to be waking people up in Scotland to the full

ramifications potentially of a yes vote. I think that the big guns

didn't want to wade into early because they thought it might be

scaremongering. Although there has been a lot of talk about no

sterling, not being in the EU. There was no reality that this could

actually happen but now when you have Mark Carney, the governor of

the Bank of England, coming out with a strong statement, and you have Bob

Dudley, that BP Chief Executive, saying clearly that the North Sea

oil does not have a future and that the best is to have the integrity of

the UK for there to be oil resources and for Scotland to count on having

a Norway moment when they will have a surplus of oil, none of the

experts are predicting that. There are experts on big oil in Scotland

who would say that there is plenty. The debate about whether or not

North Sea oil is going to run out over the next 30 years has been

running for a long time. They know the economic ratification is of

independence and yet so many people are still leaning towards it. One of

the big guns, Sir Ian Woods, an industry veteran, saying

specifically that the energy industry is going to be hurt if

Scotland votes yes. Let's go to the daily record. Alex's Black

Wednesday. Exclusive poll gives the yes camp a 6`point mountain to climb

in the last week. Some are saying that the yes campaign peaked too

early, but Alex Salmond says that isn't the case. Perhaps that's

exactly what happened, the yes campaign gained such momentum. If

that had happened closer to the vote maybe it would take off but at this

stage, I think it was Danny Alexander who put the Black

Wednesday figure in our minds. He alluded to this being similar to

when Britain fell out of the exchange rate mechanism in 1990, and

that this is Alex Salmond's Black Wednesday. The trend for the yes

camp since mid August has been that it has been increasing its support

and that has continued. You are saying that has come to an end with

this poll? We'll see. It looked like the campaign was gaining momentum.

So this poll is very important. Is there enough time for them to regain

momentum when you have a show of force with all three leaders coming

to Scotland? It may have stopped it. Sure. You are a former State

Department official and we have heard various people in the no

campaign talking about what it would mean for the UK on the international

stage if Scotland split from the union. What do you think? I think

looking at Scotland's position globally, within the United

Kingdom, the UK is number three in the population of the U, after

Germany and France. If Scotland is separate, their population is about

5,300,000, putting them behind Slovakia and slightly ahead of

Croatia. AI independent countries. Alex Salmond believes that the

would`be part of the EU. You want to have an impact as a nation and one

of the things that would happen for Scotland to break away, the UK,

instead of being number three in population and in force, it would be

like Croatia without the sunshine. That is number one. Number two, is

Scotland thinking through the ramifications, how many hundreds of

thousands of Scots are in England and Wales who would become

foreigners? They have thought about that and they are still thinking

about yes. Will they have eight Embassy in every country? Many

don't, they are deferring to the EU. But it would not have the nuclear

deterrent it does not want. But what will they had to defend themselves?

They would not have NATO. There are a number of countries in NATO that

don't... Scotland would not be able to be part of NATO with their

current adversity to nuclear deterrence. I suspect Alex Salmond

will disagree with that. At the bottom we have Obama prepares to

step up US role. A big speech tonight. 2am. I'm sure you will be

up for it. I'll just be getting home. He has got a lot to cover in

this speech because he has been saved quite some time that we don't

want to get in Syria, but it looks like that is what is going to

happen. He's also likely to say he does not need Congressional

approval. Unlike the big chemical weapons in Syria, he will say I'm

going to take the action on this without turning to Congress. We need

to hear from him that he is going to defeat ISIS and ISIL and there has

to be some sort of land for a post Assad Syria. Some would argue he

made the wrong call on that one, in Syria. Once bitten, twice shy. He's

going to make it clear he doesn't need Congressional support, but does

have public backing after the beheading of those two American

journalists. Strong backing. It was a misstep when he said they did not

have a strategy. There has been a scramble to make up for that and

tomorrow is a symbolic day, 9/11. It will have that impact as well. Very

nice to see you. We'll be back in an hour. Stay with us here now on BBC

news because at the top of that hour while we will have much more on the

campaign Trail in Scotland. What effect has the visit of the Prime

Minister and other with things the party leaders had? Time now for

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