Letters / No has nowhere to go
The No campaign raised millions, their top 19 donors being wealthy Tory unionist supporters.
Millions more (we can only estimate) have been poured into the pro-union campaign by the Westminster back door with 10 hugely expensive papers published on why Scotland should continue to be ruled by the bankrupt London Parliament, and endless trips by politicians talking at us.
The Prime Minister cynically purchased Orkney and Shetland’s MP, Mr Carmichael for £79,000 to tell those of us living amongst the largest oil and gas reserves in Europe to give it all up to London’s purse. Again.
He is called the Scottish Secretary and is a laughing stock and, like fellow Scotsman Alastair Darling, pontificates on all things negative, making the most ridiculous assertions about Scots and their country being unable to be equal and requiring to be “better” only with the crutch of the Westminster family.
For the first half of the referendum campaign Better Together have been mired in a cul-de-sac, spewing forth such utter drivel and irrelevant nonsense that they have succeeded in deceiving no one except the hard core nucleus of supporters blinded to any form of common sense and logic by a mainstream media, including the BBC, who are overtly pro-unionist, with few exceptions.
The Scottish Herald is the nearest to an unbiased national newspaper in Scotland today.
In 2014 the Yes campaign reached a tipping point, independence now being seen as a reality and not simply a distant hope.
After the Scottish white paper “Scotland’s Future” was published, a sea change swept Scotland, support for independence hardened and the foundation laid for a win. A substantial win.
Better Together have now found themselves at a fork in their road.
Down one route they must resort to even more desperate scaremongering- if any is left, be even more negative than ever to be heard. But no one’s scared. And no one listens.
The other route is to attack Alex Salmond and the SNP, a plan instantly alienating the majority of voters who voted them in on a landslide, and which if they stopped tomorrow, is a year too late. And no one listens.
The have been spectacularly successful in helping the Yes campaign receive with open arms the entire SNP-voting electorate, an instant base of support throughout Scotland on which the Yes plan could be mounted.
And they have been hugely successful in sending the undecideds towards us, looking for information and reassurance that Scotland was not going to fail when left to her own sovereignty.
There is now nowhere for the No campaign to go, no scare story to be told, no amount of money to be spent that can prevent the Yes campaign from doing what it planned.
To inform, with facts, information, hopes and possibilities, Yes has in place the possibility of a win, a substantial win.
It is going to take more hard work at grass-roots level to reach this landslide win for Scotland.
We are all going to have to do even more speaking, even more donating and even more helping.
No is no longer a credible campaign, they have fractured into schisms of all that is rotten in UK politics; money and deceit.
They cannot even use the word “independence”. It is too late for them to realise you will never, ever scare a Scot.
But now we must aim high, for we have nearly eight months to reach 80% Yes and quite simply it is not impossible.
Come on Scotland, the prize of freedom is within reach, take what is yours and don’t be “better”.
Be confident, and equal.
Douglas Young
Scatness
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