Dear All
Last month, the Americans in the shape of
President Barack Obama waded into the Scottish referendum debate; that was
surprising because previously the Americans were sitting on the fence.
What got them off the fence was Faslane, the
base is home to the nuclear submarine fleet of the UK and holds a key strategic
position by its location in Scotland.
The SNP has declared they want to remove
nuclear weapons off Scottish soil if they win independence.
Previously the SNP were very much anti
Nato, however I believe their ‘conversion’ to sense is just a smokescreen as
Scots want to remain part of the Nato alliance.
That policy will be reverse when they lose the
indy vote and seen as the sham it always was, the SNP don’t want to be part of
nato and never did, it’s all about trying to secure a vote cache.
As the vote gets nearer, the US president
is back again, if it is worth saying once by Obama, it is worth saying:
“If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.”
President Obama has given Scots further
insights why he believes Scotland should continue to work together with
England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
His intervention was a bombshell intervention
because it was a resounding vote of No confidence in Alex Salmond and unpopular
Nicola Sturgeon, obviously he wants the UK should remain united and strong.
Britain is a key US ally and has been so for
decades, it was previously dubbed the special relationship in the 1980’s by
President Ronald Reagan.
Obama
was speaking to Labour leader Ed Miliband along with Douglas Alexander at the
White House, something which has been denied to Alex Salmond, he usually gets palmed
off with a junior official.
Although President Obama is a strong No, he
doesn’t get a vote, but he acknowledges that the matter is a choice for Scots.
It is interesting that the Americans should
be so openly against Salmond and Sturgeon, however, I don’t believe that the
opposition is just based on “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” I would suggest
that American analysis have looked closely into the Scottish National Party and
how it operates and concluded that these are people that you can’t trust and
can’t do business with on the international stage.
Trust remains a serious problem for
Scotland’s ‘jolly fat man;’ Alex Salmond and unpopular Nicola Sturgeon not just
domestically but also abroad.
Some Observers were stunned that Obama
publicly backed a No vote when the US is officially neutral but I wasn’t, in
May 2012, while on the BBC Big Debate, I said the SNP needed to go pro Nato and
pro Faslane remaining as a nuclear base.
Salmond and Sturgeon botched it with the
simple minded student union politics mentality.
By going the way of pro Faslane, the
Nationalists would have made it harder for the Americans to take sides, they
don’t side with the ‘stupid people’, so no wonder they came out against the
Nationalist leadership.
But George Laird got it right as per usual.
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University
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