Scottish independence campaign has stalled, says Alistair Darling
Source: The Guardian
Alistair Darling has claimed that Alex Salmond's campaign for Scottish independence has stalled at the starting line after a poll found that only a third of Scots want to leave the UK.
The poll findings were released by the former chancellor a few hours before Salmond launched his party's long-awaited "Yes Scotland" campaign for the referendum on independence in 2014, centred on a new public declaration supporting separation under the slogan "Scotland's Future in Scotland's Hands".
The event at a multiscreen cinema in Edinburgh, billed as the largest community-based political movement in the country's history, will feature pro-independence celebrities and public figures including former Labour politicians such as the former Falkirk MP Dennis Canavan.
SNP activists around Scotland are being trained to act as campaigners for independence, and urged to attempt to convert and persuade as many work colleagues, friends and family members in their areas as possible, and to lobby opinion formers in their community.
Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/may/25/scottish-independence-stalled-alistair-darling
intaglio
(8,170 posts)He said that the general view of Salmond was that he was a complete rogue but that he was a Scots rogue as opposed to an English Upper Class Twit (Cameron), a failed Anglo-centric Scot (Brown) or an English idiot (Milliband). This is only hear-say but probably worth repeating.
no_hypocrisy
(46,080 posts)the wind turbines being permanently banned from the vicinity his golf course.
Anarcho-Socialist
(9,601 posts)Is his preoccupation with his idea of an independent Scotland as a tax haven. He long admired the economic models of Ireland and Estonia which brought economic booms on the back of a highly-speculative property market, low corporation tax rates and a de-regulated market. The thing is, those policies caused ruin for Ireland and Estonia.
mwooldri
(10,303 posts)The referendum is in 2014.
It's 2012 now.
Anything can change in the next two years. So although a minority (albeit quite sizable) desire an independent Scotland, this minority may change in two years. Or not.
I'm not The Doctor. So I don't know. (Besides how much would the Scottish Broadcasting Corporation (BBC successor in Scotland) have to pay BBC Worldwide - you know, for overseas sales -for Doctor Who?)