Letters / Alex Salmond and the SNP
Bill Adams (‘Waiting all my life’, SN 6/9/14), you are going to have to wait a lot longer. Geordie Pottinger (‘It’s a referendum’, SN 4/9/14), it is a referendum as well as a vote for Alex Salmond and the SNP.
Kennedy Stewart (‘Misguided and disingenuous’, SN 4/9/14) a perfect description of your last letter as at no point did I suggest Scotland will become a non-democratic one party state in the event of independence. That, Mr Stewart, is a highly contentious issue which you have brought up and put on the radar for the rest of us to look at with some suspicion.
I and a majority of the No side of the independence debate know and truly believe this vote is about independence and Alex Salmond and the SNP.
Who published a white paper which is better known as the SNPs manifesto for independence? Alex Salmond and the SNP.
Who claimed a mandate to take Scotland down the road to separation with only 23 per cent of the Scottish electorate behind them? Alex Salmond and the SNP.
Who has occupied the Yes seats on panels debating Scottish independence? Alex Salmond and the SNP.
Who will lead separation negotiations with the UK? Alex Salmond and the SNP.
Who will lead EU accession negotiations? Alex Salmond and the SNP.
Who will lead negotiations with many other organisations such as NATO and the UN? Alex Salmond and the SNP.
Who will agree the terms and conditions of all these negotiations, for and on behalf of the entire Scottish nation? Alex Salmond and the SNP.
Who wants all negotiations signed and sealed before the next Holyrood elections in 2016? Alex Salmond and the SNP.
Most of these negotiations conducted by Alex Salmond and the SNP cannot be reversed, making it impossible for any party coming to power with a majority in the next parliamentary elections to run this country other than by the terms negotiated and laid down by Alex Salmond and the SNP.
The only caveat of course is if the next government was Alex Salmond and the SNP, making this independence referendum irrefutably and undeniably all about Alex Salmond and the SNP.
Gordon Harmer,
Brae
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