I SAT for eight hours on Wednesday glued to the TV screen watching Nicola Sturgeon give her answers to the Holyrood committee. My eight hours of watching was nothing compared to the eight hours Nicola endured of intensive cross-examination, some of which degenerated into the absurd self-righteous Tory party political broadcast from Margaret Mitchell. The unintended consequence that cross-party committee delivered, to which I thank them, is that it shows: Scotland, in First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, is being led by a stateswoman. She has tenacity and courage. She has strength and compassion. Scotland, it has been confirmed, has in Nicola a leader the people can be proud of – and that says a lot in this dysfunctional world.
Better Together leader Alistair Darling grilled Alex Salmond about currency plans during a televised debate in 2014 I’M hugely impressed, as always, with Lesley Riddoch’s excellent latest article, and good for her delivering what she terms her “stern rebuke” because, sadly, it’s very much needed! (More voices are needed to argue against report that Scots are too poor, February 4). All of us in the independence movement will remember with heartbreaking shame Alistair Darling’s repeated question “What will you do about currency?” to Alex Salmond, to which Alex could not satisfactorily reply. The myriad positive arguments for independence were destroyed by this one negative question. That was SEVEN years ago! To my knowledge we still don’t have a satisfactory reply, and we absolutely know the question will be triumphantly put again, along with scaremongering about pensions.