Man up and call off the cybernats

We're all going to be filthy rich (dances on table top) ... well maybe. Calton thinks that he will just wait a while before buying a boat and calling it the Silver Dollar, because oil prices can go down as well as up. It all depends on who you listen to. Undeterred by David Cameron's bruising encounter with the OBR this week, John Swinney has decided to go head-to-head with them over oil revenue forecasts. Nothing like not learning from other peoples' mistakes. Of course Swinney has to pull something from the bag after the embarrassing leak of last week. The trouble is, he's now leaving the SNP open to the charge of just manufacturing their own figures whenever those of other people don't suit them. (The same goes for the Scotland in or out of the EU post-independence argument.) At some point, the SNP are going to have to accept that not every statistic or report is going to back independence and their response should be to give a reasoned answer and get on with it, not counter with their own set of figures or pet expert. And slagging off a journalist like Douglas Fraser just because they don't like what he says does not help their cause. Man up, SNP and call off the cybernats.