When Nicola Sturgeon looks back on her economic legacy, what will she feel most proud of: the big industrial plants on Scotland’s coast churning out wind turbines for export, the near monthly launch of newly built ships on the Clyde, or the thriving green venture capital community sprouting up in Edinburgh?

An inability to deal with economic reality is the final entry in the ledger of Sturgeon’s economic legacy

That kind of fond reminiscing won’t happen of course because none of these things exist.