Salmond to get one million scots signing independence declaration

This article was last updated on April 16, 2022

Canada: Oye! Times readers Get FREE $30 to spend on Amazon, Walmart…
USA: Oye! Times readers Get FREE $30 to spend on Amazon, Walmart…

The Scottish independence referendum’s ‘Yes’ campaign has been launched at a celebrity-endorsed event.

Mr. Salmond has told that this bid for independence was based on the idea that “the people who live in Scotland are best placed to make the decisions that affect Scotland.”

No date has been set for a referendum on Scotland’s independence yet; however Mr. Salmond wants a vote to take place in 2014.

However, a survey published by former chancellor, Alistair Darling shows that only one among three Scottish people wants independence, while 57 percent are opposing the separation. The poll was carried out by YouGov, asked more than 1,000 Scottish people if they agreed that the country should ‘become a country independent of the rest of the U.K.’. The results reveal that only 27 percent of those who participated said Scotland would be better off financially by going it alone. Almost half (47 percent) said any such move would leave Scotland in a worse economic position.

Mr. Darling, who has been heading the campaign to keep Scotland part of Britain, has stated that Mr. Salmond’s views do not represent the majority residing in Scotland.

The ex-chancellor has said: ‘ Alex Salmond may be the first minister of Scotland but, as these new figures confirm, on the issue of independence he doesn’t speak for Scotland. The nationalists will go to great lengths to try and prove there is a groundswell towards leaving the U.K. but the truth is their campaign has stalled. Independence is an unpopular as it has ever been.’

Mr. First minister has also cautioned, “Our opponents, and there are a few, are rich and they are powerful. Therefore to win and to win well we are going to have to galvanise the whole community of the realm of Scotland.”

To mitigate fears that independence was favoured only by a minority of Scots, Mr. Salmond has declared at the event in Edinburgh his aim of getting one million Scots to sign the declaration.

Those who took the stage to voice their support for the campaign also included Scottish Green Party co-leader Patrick Harvie, actor Alan Cumming, former politician Dennis Canavan, poet Liz Lochead and actor Brian Cox.

Article viewed on Oye! Times at www.oyetimes.com.