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I WAS sorry to see that Stuart Campbell of Wings over Scotland had decided to call things a day and wind up his website after almost 10 years of campaigning for independence. The work he did in the run-up to the 2014 referendum was utterly immense, his forensic dissection of the Unionists’ arguments was above and beyond anything that the official Yes campaign were capable of. I recall seeing SNP MSPs handing out copies of the Wee Blue Book and singing its praises, and I am certain that many of those elected in the wake of the 2014 defeat were put there in part through the good work done by Mr Campbell, which makes it all the more galling to see them turn on him in recent years.
I HAVE no wish whatsoever for Scotland to become independent, however I have no doubt in my mind that a fair proportion of the Scottish population wishes it to be so. The last referendum was held using poorly-defined wording on the actual vote, and no clear timetable as to the lifetime on the decision of that vote; one generation is far too loose a definition. All sides in Scotland must sit down and agree on the voting procedures, in particular deciding the percentage of the vote, not just a straight first-past-the-post vote, required to decide the final outcome, and how long should pass before another referendum on independence is to be held.