Firstly, I make no apology if this post is passionately in the ‘Yes’ camp. However, I want to hear some passion from the Better Together campaign. I will research and commit to publishing arguments from Better Together that offer us an alternative. Incidently, we all appreciate that YES will mean significant change in Scotland. Please don’t imagine that a…
Category: Scotland’s Referendum
Referendum – business certainty for dummies
How many more companies or their chiefs will stress that business needs certainty and a YES vote for Scotland introduces too much uncertainty. If I had a magic wand I would wave it and remove all uncertainty from the world. Hold on a minute, the insurance world just crashed? – they were in the business of managing uncertainty … oops!…
Referendum – the threat to YES from the SNP
I attended a Referendum debate aimed at the ‘don’t knows’ in Helensburgh & Lomond. The event on 5th March in Helensburgh’s Victoria Halls was packed out. The speakers, especially Alan Bisset and Michelle Thomson were excellent. Ruth Wishart and Feargal Dalton were very convincing and Robin McAlpine was passionate, well informed but maybe a tiny bit too vocal, excellent nevertheless.…
Referendum – our shipping industry in hindsight
Growing up on the Clyde from 1951, overlooking the shipyards, with my dad the general manager at A & J Inglis Shipbuilders I have first hand experience of our shipbuilding industry on the Clyde. It wasn’t an easy life, conditions could be a bit dire and wages were not great. However, we were doing something right because Clyde Built shipping…