Failed bid to prove that Scotland doesn’t want Independence
I SHOOK my head in wonder when I read Dave Dempsey’s letter in last week’s Press (‘Single Transferable
Vote may have led to Unionist majority’). Now there’s a man who knows how to spin.
His point, or wishful thinking possibly, was that if the Scottish Government elections had used a single transferable vote (STV), there ‘might’ have been an overall Unionist majority. He wrote that it was ‘unfortunate’ that STV was not used. He misses at least a couple of important matters:
1 It was the Unionist Westminster government that imposed the odd system used for Scottish Government elections, in an effort to ensure that there would never be a proIndependence majority. How did that work out, by the way?
2 Where the Westminster ‘First
Past the Post’ voting system – which presumably Mr Dempsey supports
– is used for elections in Scotland, the Unionist parties are more or less wiped out.
Thanks for cheering me up with your letter, Mr Dempsey, or should I say Councillor Dempsey of the Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party. I’m sure you must wish you could find a way to prove that Scotland doesn’t want independence but your search is going to have to continue I’m afraid!
This would surely give Scotland (as well as Wales and Northern Ireland) the authority to hold a referendum for Independence and free ourselves from this debacle.
Would we be successful? I don’t know but I’d like to think so.
Would we be better off? Surely we couldn’t be any worse.
But, come on, let’s try. Remember, it doesn’t matter what you think of Nicola Sturgeon, it’s what you think of your country, and its future.
Like many, I originally thought it too early to hold another referendum after our failure in 2014, but now feel that it’s time to take up the mantle and stand on our own two feet. erected signs saying that the glaciers would disappear by 2020, but, in
2020, they quietly removed them. And the Climategate emails, where climate scientists communicated in private before they were hacked, display some inconvenient truths on glaciers.
For example, Dr Geoff Jenkins asks the question “would you agree that there is no convincing evidence for Kilimanjaro glacier melt being due to recent warming (let alone man-made warming?” in a 2004 email.