But over the past year, extraordinarily, the biggest spender of all has been the only one that doesn’t have to publicly declare it: the state. The Scotland’s Referendum website is only a fraction of the taxpayer-subsidised Yes effort now being mounted by the Scottish Government as it battles to close a 10-15 per cent deficit in the opinion polls. Last week, all 2.5 million households in the country received a 12-page glossy government booklet, Scotland’s Future – What Independence Means for You.