THE SNP has been accused of a lack of scrutiny after the Scottish Parliament committee voted against publishing an evidence submission it has received from Alex Salmond.
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IN your article “Time for TV to tackle Scottish history myths” (January 31), historian Dr Alan Kennedy correctly points that Scotland was never colonised by England and in fact was an enthusiastic participant in the whole colonial enterprise. However, I completely disagree with him is where he states “ This Union is a voluntary one and parliament voted through the treaty.” as though it was a democratic decision. It was anything but. The Union was detested by most citizens and there is a wealth of evidence to show this, most notably from Daniel Defoe, author, journalist and English Government agent who was in Edinburgh at the time. He wrote that there was hardly a man in the city who wished for the Union and how mobs roamed the streets to demonstrate against it. The Treaty was eventually signed secretly in a cellar, to avoid the anger of the citizens, and smuggled out of the city.
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Politicians such as Angus MacNeil MP have had to deal with flack just for trying to have debates THE one thing we should all have in common is our support for independence. Unfortunately, that isn’t enough for many of our leading lights, who have no interest in taking on board views from the wider Yes movement if those views differ from their own. A number of people close to the leadership in Scotland, along with a number of SNP MPs in Westminster, spend far too much time on Twitter berating independence supporters who believe in a more direct route to independence. If their intended targets happen to oppose gender self-ID or the Hate Crime Bill, they are perceived to be fair game for the type of abuse that should never be tolerated by anyone in or around our leadership.