The new tax rates that businesses will have to pay will almost double in most cases. This will help kill off Scottish business and will look bad for the Scottish parliament - leading the public to assume that it (Holyrood) and NOT Westminster is to blame.

Of course this is London driven. Nothing better than a long dole queue to keep people in line is there Mr Blair? Keep them dependent on hand outs and they are too frightened to tell you to *!* off.