Michael Moore attacks Alex Salmond's 'odd notion' of independence As well as the pound and Bank of England, he cited the SNP claiming that other countries would bail out Scotland's bank if there was another financial meltdown. "That's an odd notion of independence," he added. He said the separatists have failed to make clear what kind of economy a separate Scotland would have. Instead they have moved "seamlessly from economic model to economic model, alighting on any system that seems to suit, ten floating on to the next when it becomes expedient to do so." Until 2008, he said Mr Salmond had urged Scotland to join the "arc of prosperity" alongside Ireland, Iceland and Norway. But after Ireland's economy nosedived and Iceland went bankrupt, he said the SNP's focus moved east to Scandinavia. He accused them of shifting "from deregulated Celtic Lion to social democratic haven in one inelegant rhetorical flourish." But the Scottish Secretary questioned whether Scandinavian levels of public services could be afforded without income tax, corporation tax and VAT increasing in a separate Scotland. While the UK Government takes around 37 per cent of income in tax, that figure increases to 41.1 per cent in Norway, 47 per cent in Sweden and 48.1 per cent in Denmark. He said the latter figure is the equivalent of more than £2,500 for every man, woman and child in Scotland. "Getting there would require a radical overhaul of the Scottish economy and hard choices that cost money," he added. But Stewart Hosie, the SNP's Treasury spokesman, described Mr Moore's intervention as a "blunder" and repeated his claim the party could afford to cut corporation tax to 20 per cent. "This is the information and these are the arguments that can and will win the referendum in autumn 2014," he added.