It is time to bury the independence issue. Our Scottish Government's prime role is to spend its £30 billion wisely, delivering effective and efficient provisions for education, health, social services and a sympathetic business environment, all in a sustainable physical environment and inside a legal framework that facilitates their development. Its job is also to seek harmony, joint policy, compromise and understanding with the UK Government in Westminster, which is certainly not what is happening at the moment. Calls for independence are seriously compromising these objectives. We need a referendum on the issue now, before serious damage is done and so that the Scottish administration can concentrate their talents on the job they are in place to do.