James Cook

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Newscast · Old Newscast: The Scottish Independence Referendum (Part 1) · 22 Aug 2026 podcast

And whether there would need to be border checks on whether Scotland could borrow in the international markets.

I was talking about the bond markets, wasn't there?

regarded as uh hammering salmon in the first

I mean he had this persona.

I mean he wasn't a bank manager, Alistair Darling.

He was a he was a lawyer, but he had the persona of the old fashioned, cautious Scottish bank manager, and why on earth would anybody take such a silly risk as this?

You know,

Well, in terms of his involvement in the banking crisis as well.

I mean, I think history will be very kind to Alistair Darling all around.

I do think, Adam, there's a there's a the question about the winning the campaign in that moment with the tactics that the yet the no campaign used and how that will be viewed in 50 years or a hundred years' time, because as we will no doubt come on to discuss, this is still a live issue.

And the argument might have been won in the moment.

But you know, still polling near fifty percent support for independence.

So they haven't they haven't utterly convinced the Scottish people that that the the the country's on the right track

Comms Communications.

Bombs communication.

has been quite defiant at Rob Shorthouse has long flown these shores and gone off to do other more other but far more exciting things.

But he was quite a character and he was quite involved in a lot and you know, we we spoke to you know, he was the kind of guy we spoke to a lot and not just in this job, he did various other communications stuff.

One

And and he was pretty defiant about it.

He because he was criticized very sharply, saying it really seriously undermined the campaign because it the yes campaign couldn't believe their luck.

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