Category Archives: Scotland

The EU, the Scottish referendum and the EU referendum

Posted on October 16, 2014 by ianmacfadyen

A speech I gave yesterday, 15 October 2014, to Forum 2000 in Horsforth, West Yorkshire Introduction In January last year, the Prime Minister announced there would be an in/out referendum in 2017 after a renegotiation of the terms of the … Continue reading →

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DEAR VOTER IN THE SCOTTISH REFERENDUM

Posted on September 17, 2014 by ianmacfadyen

You have the privilege of voting in the referendum to decide the future of both Scotland and the United Kingdom. I, as a proud Scot, a proud Welshman and a proud Briton do not have this privilege. Like millions of … Continue reading →

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DEBUNKING AN UNDEBUNKED SNP MYTH: SCOTLAND ALWAYS HAS TO ENDURE WESTMINSTER GOVERNMENTS IT DOESN’T ELECT

Posted on September 16, 2014 by ianmacfadyen

Not true. The SNP, as with so much, the SNP and the Yes campaign is wrong. As I understand the complaint in the myth, it is that in general elections, the majority of MPs elected in Scottish are always of … Continue reading →

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HOW TO TELL THE SNP?

Posted on September 13, 2014 by ianmacfadyen

How do we point out to SNP supporters that they should vote No next Thursday to save their party, without alarming No voters? The survival of the SNP depends on a No vote. The party exists to campaign, lobby and … Continue reading →

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I’VE CHANGED MY MIND ON SCOTTISH INDEPENDENCE

Posted on September 11, 2014 by ianmacfadyen

I’ve changed my mind over Scottish independence and so on which way I would vote in the referendum on 18 September. Although a Liberal and Liberal Democrat, I welcomed the SNP’s election progress from the 1967 Hamilton by-election to their … Continue reading →

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WHY DESTROY THE UNITED KINGDOM?

Posted on September 8, 2014 by ianmacfadyen

Why does the United Kingdom have to be destroyed? Or, to put it another way: Why, Yes voter, are you voting to destroy the United Kingdom? Or, put it this way: Why are you trying to destroy this political Union, … Continue reading →

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VOTING YES IS NO ROAD TO UTOPIA

Posted on September 3, 2014 by ianmacfadyen

Contrary to what the Yes campaign wants us to believe, there is not a political party called Independent Scotland fighting a general election on 18 September, whose victory will answer every problem with a utopia to suit every taste. It’s … Continue reading →

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DOES THE YES CAMPAIGN LIKE THE SCOTS?

Posted on August 29, 2014 by ianmacfadyen

Does the Yes Campaign in the Scottish referendum even like Scotland and the Scots? I have long had my doubts, but after Scottish Government Finance Secretary John Swinney’s confirmation that an independent Scotland would default on debt and First Minister … Continue reading →

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PROUD SCOT – BETTER TOGETHER

Posted on August 16, 2014 by ianmacfadyen

I’m a proud Scot and a proud Briton. Like many – perhaps most – Scots I am denied the vote in the referendum because of the naked fiddling of the franchise by the First Minister to stack the odds in … Continue reading →

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