Saturday 10 November 2012

Independence Referendum Question

parliamentary information office: Mrs Curran said this showed he is “willing to fix the rules of the referendum to suit his own ends” and introduce “an uneven playing field into the biggest decision Scots will ever take”.

Want to know why Curran said this! Apparantly the 'Better Together campaign' want to spend more money than the Yes campaign on advertising their opinion.

Now call me a silly sentimental fool but surely equal amounts of advertising would be fair!

I may be wrong, of course!




parliamentary information office: I notice that, in another article today, Simon Johnson happily indulges Margaret Curran's accusations that the SNP is guilty of 'casual dishonesty'. As a little extra, Mr Johnson goes on: ' Mr Salmond has claimed he could not commission legal advice about a separate
Scotland’s EU status until the Edinburgh Agreement was signed', and selectively quotes a couple of sceptics on this point.

Nothing at all, however, about the investigation of this issue by Scotland's senior law officer, the Lord Advocate, and his vindication of the SNP's position: in his view, it was 'sensible and prudent of the Scottish Government not to seek
specific legal advice before the signing of the Edinburgh Agreement with
the UK Government'.

This judgement was available to Simon Johnson yesterday. It completely discredits the charge he was trying to establish in the minds of Telegraph readers, in support of Mrs Curran's accusations. Did he not know about it, because he is just not very well-informed about Scottish politics? Or did he choose not to report it - a true case of 'casual dishonesty'?



parliamentary information office: One of the stock reasons that British Unionists give for why Trident has to be based on the Clyde is that the the Sea Lochs of the Western Scotland are normally covered in cloud, so satellites cannot spy on the base. This makes Faslane an ideal site for the nuclear deterrent.

According to Google, this is a either at worst a lie or at best a crock of BS.


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