Delighted to be part of it
Dear Editor
I refer to Joy MacNaughton’s letter in the Observer (June 27, 2018) expressing her outrage at the manner in which Stephen Kerr MP chose to portray two separate pictures side by side from the All Under One Banner march through Stirling.
Joy has every right to be outraged as I am now having read the accompanying text in Stephen Kerr’s post.
It’s all in the editing and Mr Kerr should be mindful of this – unless of course his aim was to stoke up antiindependence sentiment.
The actions of a handful of march participants with their offending banner was not representative of the position as myself.
In a march of 20,000 people no participant can see all the other banners except those closest to them. If some individuals bring along a banner of this nature how can you accuse our elected MSPs of “openly associating themselves with it”
As to ‘the ugly message on show in the city’, the AUOB marchers all look a happy group of smiling, joyous people to me as the photographs on pages eight and nine of the Observer indicate and as Police Scotland in Glasgow, Dumfries and Stirling have all acknowledged.
Cameron Fraser Bannockburn
other 20,000 marchers.
The banner in question is not one that I support, indeed I was unaware of its presence until the following day. In crowds of thousands, you see what is around you and we were close to the English Scots for Yes team with their banner.
Mr Kerr might also wish to note that thousands of his constituents were among the 20,000 march participants. Far from “putting up with it” as his post suggests, we were delighted to be marching on our home turf for the independence cause that we believe in.
This wasn’t Mr Kerr’s only attack on the independence movement as an earlier post reported that “whilst