That is a great shame. The truth, even if not enough of our captains of industry are willing to say so openly, is that the last thing the economy needs is the extreme uncertainty and disruption that a “yes” vote would cause. The fact that a UK rump would guarantee all of the national debt is bad enough and would hammer its credit rating; but there would be lots of other issues, including whether Scotland would eventually adopt the euro, the question of what would happen were the rest of the UK to leave the EU but Scotland to stay in, the vexed issue of who would back the deposits of Scottish banks and be in charge of dismantling them were they ever to go bust again, whether Scotland’s departure from the UK would also lead to an independent Wales, and what would happen to Northern Ireland under such a doomsday scenario. The political consequences would be tragic and self-defeating and lead to a huge loss of geopolitical influence for all concerned; precious time and energy would be wasted disentangling two closely integrated nations.