Goldie attacks ‘constitutional seasickness’
FORMER Scottish Conservative Party leader Baroness Goldie has claimed Scotland is suffering from “a perpetual form of constitutional seasickness” from the continual talk of an independence referendum.
Speaking at the Conservatives Scottish conference, Baroness Goldie, who led the party between 2005 and 2011, hit out at the Nationalist “obsession” with independence and the “opportunism” of the SNP repeatedly raising the prospect of a second vote as a result of the Brexit decision.
She condemned the First Minister, telling Nicola Sturgeon: “Your responsibility is to do what is right for Scotland and your relentless fermentation of constitutional upheaval and discord is deeply damaging to Scotland.
“It is nationally unsettling, for investors it is unnerving and for the millions of people in Scotland who just want you to get on with what you were elected to do, it is unacceptable and upsetting. It is like a perpetual form of constitutional seasickness.”
The peer said that Ms Sturgeon was now using Scotland’s vote to remain in the EU in last June’s referendum to try to split apart the UK.
She added: “My remain vote, for that’s how I voted, seems to have been borrowed by Nicola Sturgeon. She says my vote for the United Kingdom to remain in the EU is her mandate to break up the United Kingdom, to seek independence for Scotland and then try to negotiate Scotland back into the EU.
“Let me say to her my vote is nothing of the sort. The Union I believe in and value above all others is the union of the United Kingdom.”