Dear All
It seems that the ‘retreat from Moscow’ has
started for Alex Salmond and Scotland’s unpopular Deputy First Minister Nicola
Sturgeon.
Today is a milestone and another defeat for
the SNP Government as they have run up the ‘white flag’ and agreed to the Electoral
Commission’s request for the SNP’s proposed referendum question to be changed
to a “more neutral” form of words.
Blair Jenkins of Yes Scotland walked out
into no man’s land and firstly declared an intention to surrender the position
which was indefensible.
Time for a quote by Alex Salmond:
“My problem is that I have too many talent
people and not enough Cabinet positions.”
Well, seems the SNP Cabinet can’t draw up an
unbiased question.
Talented indeed, me thinks not!
The Electoral
Commission’s said the planned ballot paper question for 2014 - “Do you agree
that Scotland should be an independent country? Yes/No” - was potentially
biased in favour of a Yes answer.
They have come up with a plainer wording:
“Should Scotland be an independent country?
So, people at the ballot box will have a
simple Yes / No” on their paper.
In the past much shouting of the odds by
Scottish Government Ministers was done, this is Scotland’s election made in
Scotland they cried and their cybernat supporters piped up straight behind them
as Salmond and co threatened to over-rule the politically impartial Electoral
Commission if they disagreed with its suggestion.
How the world has changed with the total
collapse of independence support.
23% with Nicola Sturgeon at the helm
pushing the debate backwards instead of forward!
On the financial front, the two main
campaign groups, Yes Scotland and Better Together, will each be permitted to
spend £1.5m in the crucial final four months before polling.
Presumably beforehand Mr. Salmond will wish
to address why Scots are unwilling to be active in his independence campaign
even within his own party.
Alex Salmond can’t even tempt his own
supporters onto the streets to support him now!
In Glasgow, the Sturgeon clique has to stagger
events in order for people to attend both thus giving the impression of large
interest when there is none!
John McCormick, Electoral Commissioner for
Scotland, said:
“Voters are entitled to a referendum which
produces a result they can have confidence in. The recommendations we have made
today are an important part of giving voters that confidence. But it is of course
for the Scottish Parliament to have the final say.”
So, the retreat has started, as Salmond and
Sturgeon lead the remnants of the clique and hangers on across the cold bitter
snowy wastelands, people will start to drop out and dodging the column with
excuses.
Alistair Darling, leader of the pro-UK
Better Together groups said:
"I am pleased that the impartial
Electoral Commission has rejected the fixed referendum question which Alex
Salmond demanded. They have also rejected the nationalist's attempts to silence
their opponents by setting spending limits that would have given them an unfair
advantage. The commission’s experts have also said that nationalist attempts to
gag business, unions and civil society are wrong”.
Time for a quote by Alex Salmond:
“My problem is that I have too many talent
people and not enough Cabinet positions.”
It seems now that SNP members and indy
supporters should be asking the hard questions of Salmond and Sturgeon who have
completely botched this campaign up.
Nicola Sturgeon needs to stand down as
Independence Minister, she is part of the problem and not part of the solution.
Today is a humiliating defeat made worse by
the hot air and bluster of previous rhetoric by Salmond and Sturgeon.
As Eric Cartman of SouthPark would say:
'This campaign sucks ass dude!'
As Eric Cartman of SouthPark would say:
'This campaign sucks ass dude!'
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow
University
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