Edited by Neil Anderson, Tuesday, 2 Sep 2014, 21:00
Since he died I've been re-reading all the Iain Bank's books that I have, I even stole one that I didn't have: Hydrogen Sonata. If you aren't scots read it. It a good introduction to what us here in Scotland are feeling now.
Disclaimer: I'm a yes, my dad won't say and my mum and wee brother are tending to no.
We're all asking and being asked how we're going to vote and you have to say. Then we have a genial argument, Robin Harper and I had one the other evening. Some people are going too far, as always. But this stupidity of the too-involved shouldn't obscure the great thing that has happened: people have re-connected with democracy.
People are registering to vote, we have non-party-affiliated workers for both causes on the streets. We have long-since stopped listening to politicians and we've thrashed it out for ourselves in whatever the groups we are part of.
This is a question where reason fails to enlighten, we might get this very right or very wrong. It's a jump in the dark whatever we decide.
I think that it is a tribute to Scotland and Britain that we can have this discussion with almost no violence.
You see? Even a yes vote knows that Britain is something very special.
hydrogen sonata
Since he died I've been re-reading all the Iain Bank's books that I have, I even stole one that I didn't have: Hydrogen Sonata. If you aren't scots read it. It a good introduction to what us here in Scotland are feeling now.
Disclaimer: I'm a yes, my dad won't say and my mum and wee brother are tending to no.
We're all asking and being asked how we're going to vote and you have to say. Then we have a genial argument, Robin Harper and I had one the other evening. Some people are going too far, as always. But this stupidity of the too-involved shouldn't obscure the great thing that has happened: people have re-connected with democracy.
People are registering to vote, we have non-party-affiliated workers for both causes on the streets. We have long-since stopped listening to politicians and we've thrashed it out for ourselves in whatever the groups we are part of.
This is a question where reason fails to enlighten, we might get this very right or very wrong. It's a jump in the dark whatever we decide.
I think that it is a tribute to Scotland and Britain that we can have this discussion with almost no violence.
You see? Even a yes vote knows that Britain is something very special.