In the spirit of impartiality and as promised, I trotted off to Victoria Halls in Helensburgh on 10th. The debate was a cross party affair with attendance from Mike Russell SNP, Jackie Baillie Labour, Maggie Chapman for the Greens, David Mundell Cons and a couple of sixth form students from the local Hermitage academy. The event was produced by The…
Referendum – ask Andy Murray
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…
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.…