David Cameron has nobody to blame but himself for the chaos that resulted from his final acknowledgement last week that the chicanery that has been evolving from Alex Salmond’s nationalist government in Hollyrood since their election victory last May, had to be confronted. He previously had foolishly chosen appeasement, soft peddling and backslapping to ingratiate himself with Salmond’s SNP government. We should not forget where the SNP government were going before his intervention. Alex Salmond intended to hold a multi questioned referendum, where like the each way bet at the bookies, he would claim victory if his Independence punt came in third out of a three horse race. Even Jim Sillars, a former Deputy leader to Alex Salmond had cautioned him that he had no legal base or powers in the Scottish Parliament for this multi option each way gamble.
The Sulking Six
The banshee howling and hectoring that took place during the Scottish Secretary’s statement by the six SNP MP’s did not bode well for any balanced and constructive debate on Scotland’s constitutional future. The “sulking six” displayed a collective contempt that exposed an uncomfortable face of Nationalism that all Scots should be very wary of.
referendum / The Sulking Six
Referendum
David Cameron has nobody to blame but himself for the chaos that resulted from his final acknowledgement last week that the chicanery that has been evolving from Alex Salmond’s nationalist government in Hollyrood since their election victory last May, had to be confronted. He previously had foolishly chosen appeasement, soft peddling and backslapping to ingratiate himself with Salmond’s SNP government. We should not forget where the SNP government were going before his intervention. Alex Salmond intended to hold a multi questioned referendum, where like the each way bet at the bookies, he would claim victory if his Independence punt came in third out of a three horse race. Even Jim Sillars, a former Deputy leader to Alex Salmond had cautioned him that he had no legal base or powers in the Scottish Parliament for this multi option each way gamble.
The Sulking Six
The banshee howling and hectoring that took place during the Scottish Secretary’s statement by the six SNP MP’s did not bode well for any balanced and constructive debate on Scotland’s constitutional future. The “sulking six” displayed a collective contempt that exposed an uncomfortable face of Nationalism that all Scots should be very wary of.