Independence for Scotland, It's Coming Soon!

"47 per cent of people say they would be more likely to vote Yes, or already plan to vote Yes, if we can show how an independent Scotland will be wealthier and fairer than the UK..."

"This is called playing the race card. It is one of the most dangerous things an individual can do in any context, and of course normally done by politicians of the far right. But for a Labour blogger to do it in Scotland, where there is a hard worked for  and commendable cross-party and cross-society consensus against racial prejudice, and inject it into the highly charge debate on independence is despicable."

"Alistair Darling has accepted £500,000 on behalf of Better Together from Tory donor Ian Taylor. John Mann, Labour MP, called Mr Taylor’s donation to the Conservative party “dirty money”. Serious questions raised on National Collective and in The Herald relating to Mr Taylor’s business background have been ignored.

Better Together must return this money pending a full internal investigation. Whatever your view on the referendum, the Scottish public deserves to know the truth about how our politics is funded.

There cannot be a fair referendum if money is solicited from outwith Scotland or from rich Tory donors who do not vote in Scotland.

There cannot be an open referendum if funding comes from unethical sources. Our politics is once again tarnished by ‘dirty money’ and vested corporate interests.

We are submitting the following to Parliament:

“Calling on the Scottish Parliament to examine the circumstances and issues in relation to Mr Ian Taylor’s £500 thousand donation to the No campaign for the referendum on an independent Scotland, as publicised in a range of authoritative media sources.”

"He hated these periods of ignorance, of indecision, but he knew that he did have to make the occasional choice by his own utilisation of free will, and due to the police car and the note, he was in danger and could not afford to either find himself in custody, or attract undue attention to his employer, after all secrecy was what it was all about. If the general public knew about the threat civilisation was under and the mere fact that aliens were not only in existence, but had actually begun to infiltrate humankind, then wholesale panic would ensue. So, he had ended the trail back to him at the house. It had meant the death of Suzi, but Suzi was already dead, it only halted her rebirth. Suzi Two would come along soon, though. He could already feel her in his bones."

"I had one of these “did he really just say that?” moments this weekend when the pizza delivery guy asked me what was the best way to get out of our cul-de-sac.  In one fell swoop he propelled himself to the top of the weekly bozo list which was no mean feat in a 7-day period that contained some utterly bizarre, incoherent ramblings from First-Minister-in-Waiting Johann Lamont."

"With the Westminster government breaking promise after promise, it is little wonder that people in Scotland want major decisions to be made by a Scottish Government directly accountable to people living here.
"Only a Yes vote will ensure that the decisions that matter to Scotland are made by a Scottish Parliament directly elected by people living in Scotland."