I suppose the SNP
would be half-expecting some wild statements to be made during the period
between now and their referendum. And I’m
sure that they’ll have people beavering away somewhere preparing answers and
rebuttals to all the obvious ones.
I doubt, though,
that anything will have prepared them for this one. The suggestion by a Conservative peer that an
independent Scotland would
become a target for invasion and that England’s
inevitable response to such an invasion would be to “bomb the hell out of Glasgow airport
and Edinburgh
airport” is one of the daftest statements I’ve seen in a long time.
He is, apparently,
a QC and not without political experience, according to his
official website. And it’s a few weeks yet until April 1st.
I assume that he
isn’t speaking officially for his party; I can’t believe that there are many
others who even think like this, let alone say it out loud. Trying to scare the Scots into voting the ‘right’
way doesn’t sound to me like a good game plan.
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The anti-SNP (and Salmond) pro-Unionist bias in the UK and Scottish media, including the BBC, has to be seen to be believed.
Newsnet Scotland goes a little way towards countering it.
Wales would benefit by having a similar web presence.
Newsnet Scotland is brilliant but you also get rational debate by the Herald.
What the guy was telling Salmond was simple, if you chose independence you need an airforce powerful enough to see off the RAF.
Would not cost Scotland a lot..
The good lord had, I think, spent cosiderable time on liscensed premises before he decided to do a party political broadcast for the SNP
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