Showing posts with label Alex Salmond. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Alex Salmond. Show all posts

June 04, 2014

Talk not walk, facts not flags - Making the "unremittingly" and "unrelentingly positive" case for the union


Scottish unionists campaigning for a "No" vote won't be waving the Union flag, (because it's associated with extremists) but will be bigging up the Union and Great Britain by looking at the economic and social facts and figures. 

If only our ever-so brutish, sorry I mean British, disLoyalists would take one second to look at the actual facts and the actual figures, the actual census data, poll data, the back of our currency and they would soon see that the Union is stronger than ever. No-one is chipping away at their British identity but those who say their is a "holy war" and a nazi-style assault against "the protestant-unionist-loyalist people".

David Cameron has frequently said that the Union will be won by making the "unremittingly positive" case. In an interview with BBC News, the Prime Minister David Cameron said:
"That’s my whole argument, which is go back to the big picture, and I think this family of nations is better off together. Not just is better off in the United Kingdom, but we in the rest of the United Kingdom think we’re better off with Scotland that we want you to stay. That argument is one that is unremittingly positive about the success of this family of nations and how we should keep this family together. 
I choose to make a positive argument just as I choose to make a positive argument about the defence jobs in Scotland, and financial services jobs here in Scotland, about jobs in oil and gas. We’re better off, Scotland’s better off, we’re all better off if we have the backing of the United Kingdom, a top-ten economy, behind these great industries."
He has even used the term, "unrelentingly positive"Henry McDonald wrote:

March 09, 2014

#IndyRef - Trainee lawyer James Wallace fights for voting rights of Scottish expats

Aidan O'Neill QC produced a legal opinion (formal advice commissioned by James Wallace (@james_wallace1)) on the legality of the independence referendum. The legal opinion returned with the conclusion that Scotland’s first minister acted illegally by denying expatriate Scots a vote in the independence referendum. 
Aidan O’Neill QC is an expert in EU law said the decision had “good prospects” of being overturned in a judicial review on the grounds that it violated Scottish expatriates’ right to freedom of movement under European law. James Wallace is sending the legal opinion to Salmond and David Cameron demanding they enfranchise the estimated 1.15m Scottish expatriates in order to avoid court action that could delay the referendum due on September 18. The Sunday Times reported that the current arrangement discourages out-migration and penalises those who leave. 
James Wallace (@james_wallace1), 26, is a trainee lawyer of transparent initiative and ingenuity, previously said to Reuters:
"It's ridiculous, quite frankly, that Scottish soldiers based in England, 10 out of 11 Scottish Olympians and international rugby players who played for Scotland all their careers, cannot vote," Wallace, 26, told Reuters.

February 21, 2014

#WhitePaper - Salmondite as Redmondite politics


Newton Emerson wrote in the Sunday Times of February 16 2014:
"The parallels between Redmond and SNP leader Alex Salmond are remarkable, as the Scottish press has noted. In his long, democratic fight for Home Rule, Redmond played down identity politics, spurned cultural nationalism and focused on debating the practicalities, until he could portray the debate as negotiating the inevitable. Salmond has done the same and the results are transformative. Meanwhile, Adams remains an anti-Redmondite two decades after the IRA-ceasefire. His vision of a United Ireland is high on symbolism and low on detail, invoking all the alarm of change with none of the assurance of fact."
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