I AM accepting the invitation to respond to the article by Jonathon Shafi in Tuesday morning’s paper (The Yes movement is back at square one and…
We need a minimum of 60% in favour before a move to become independent would be assured. Photograph: Colin Mearnsmovement is at present sadly realistic. Approaching my mid-seventies, I have no personal expectation of witnessing Scotland becoming independent! My continuing motivation is for my descendants and my fellow Scots, old and new.
I have been voting SNP all my adult life and my continued vote is assured as long as Joanna Cherry is my MP. My vote for her is in spite of her party, not because of it. No matter if the SNP, Green and Alba were to have some common strap line on their manifestos for the forthcoming General Election asserting that the votes being cast for them are votes for independence, the first-past-the-post system, whether in the next General Election, or the next, or the next one after that, won’t deliver independence!The voter spread across the UK and Unionist ideology will continue as is.
I still believe in independence but I’m beginning to believe in the need for a longer-term approach involving a groundswell of involvement across society: a mass movement of people, debating the pros and cons, addressing fears, talking up the positives that independence will bring. Without such involvement over time, and not confined to jingoism at election times, I fear we’re stuck with the status quo.
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