Personal Blogs

Well the poolis don't think so.

[edited to add]

I was at work when I posted this, so it was just a quick link. However, I think that it needs a wee bit more said about it; in a way it is what the campaign has been all about.

So let's have a quote:

"Any neutral observer could be led to believe Scotland is on the verge of societal disintegration yet nothing could be further from the truth. [...]

Scotland's citizens are overwhelmingly law abiding and tolerant it is preposterous to imply that they would abandon these virtues by placing a cross in a box. [...]

"Respect is not demonstrated by suggesting a minority of mindless idiots are representative of anything. [...]

"One of the many joys of this campaign has been how it has awakened political awareness across almost every single section of society. The success enjoyed by the many should not be sullied by the actions of the few."

There's more, read it all for yourselves.

I woke up this morning to read poisonous lies in the London press, not the BBC, the London press, that we were a nation violently divided against ourselves. Not my feeling but what could be done? So imagine my surprise...

The police tell them that they are talking shite! And in no uncertain terms! 

I'm battering on and on here because we, here in Scotland, are going through something that we want everyone to experience: the feeling that your voice is being heard, that your vote counts. This is exhilarating, empowering and wonderful. We're having a national conversation, and we're having that conversation with feeling and without violence.

So to be told that we're at each others' throats and that blood is flowing in rivers on the streets is ... shall we say gutting?

We've been suffering a waterfall-tirade of doom-sayers, who are rich/powerful enough to have the ear of the media, about how we will all die if we vote yes, that we are storing up ISAs of hate, about how we are only doing this because we hate the English/Thatcher/Blair.

We've seen the British establishment red in tooth-and-claw for a while now; the only way yes can win is if there has been a concerted campaign of intimidation. There's been one of these right enough but it wasnae us honest. And then...

Our cops come out and tell the politicians and press that they are out-and-out liars and they'd better stop it. Scots do mad thing when they are pushed into corners.

I've said again and again that we've already won. And by we I mean all of us here in the UK.