Letters / Who’s running scared?
Douglas (Young), in your letter Relief (SN 30/9/13) you say Salmond asked for the debate with Cameron, which automatically links him and the SNP to the Yes campaign.
This request follows Salmond telling Cameron to “butt out” of the independence debate a few months ago, so it was a bit of a hypocritical request don’t you think?
Douglas tell us, if the SNP are nothing to do with independence why has Nicola Sturgeon taken part in more than one televised debate on independence?
The reason Alex Salmond wants the debate with Cameron is so he can turn the debate into the SNP versus the Tory Party, or Scotland versus England.
It’s not, it’s a debate between Scots on the Yes and No side of the fence which includes the YESNP, Salmond, Sturgeon, you and me.
So in theory Salmond would not win the debate but lower it to an anti-Tory, anti-English, anti-upper class toff slagging match.
What it should be is between Alistair Darling, leader of the No campaign, or better still George Galloway and Alex Salmond, leader of the YESNP campaign, but Salmond is running scared.
Nobody is mistaken by linking the SNP to the Yes campaign, although I can understand the Yes campaign not wanting to be linked to the SNP because of the sheer embarrassment of such a link.
Douglas, if there is no link how can Salmond say if we vote yes, he will re-nationalise the Royal Mail, (at a cost of millions to the Scottish tax payer)?
How can he say if we vote yes, Scottish pensioners will get their pension earlier than pensioners in the UK and they will be paid more?
Answer me this, if the UK is raising the pension age and 10 per cent of the population are pensioners in the UK as a whole, how on earth can Salmond make such promises when Scotland has 18 per cent of its population drawing their pension?
Douglas you will notice several question marks throughout my letter; you in the past have asked for serious debate on this subject.
So once again I invite you to take part in this debate or are you running scared just like Mr Salmond.
Gordon Harmer
Brae
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