Former allies Nicola Sturgeon and Alex Salmond are now at daggers drawn, with some saying the independence campaign is stagnating
MUCH has been written in The Herald on the subject of the possibility of another independence referendum.
It is clear that the positions of both camps have become more vociferous, entrenched and vitriolic, not helped by the apparent prevarication of Nicola Sturgeon, the animosity of Alex Salmond, and the asinine stupidity of Boris Johnson and Michael Gove et al.
Independence has obvious attractions and palpable disadvantages; dozens of democratic countries with population sizes not unlike our own seemingly thrive under their own power yet the received wisdom by many, particularly in Westminster and Holyrood, is that Scotland alone would be incapable of self rule. We would be an economic basket case without the beneficent teat of the mother country, conveniently ignoring that Britain as a whole is in financial dire straits reliant on ever-increasing borrowing and is a basket case in its own right. But they have a point: it is not yet clear exactly how Scotland would manage to go it alone, certainly in the early years, and given the horrors of the split with the EU, one can only imagine what a divorce from England would be like. The animosity directed at the EU would be as nothing compared to the ordure that would come our way. I, therefore blow hot and cold on the whole issue; my heart tells me yes, my head tells me no.