To listen to Alex Salmond talk, you might think he was fighting an election campaign rather than a campaign for Scottish independence. I just watched CaMoron’s speech on the subject, and although he made one small idiotic point about low tax being a good thing, on te whole I found it a good speech. We are better together. CaMoron took a holistic attitude, illustrating many examples of how both countries can only flourish if we stay as one. I found it quite rousing. Mind you, I have to question how one can argue so passionately for the union of Scotland and England and against union with Europe; why favour one union and oppose another? I know my views on the nation-state are rather radical, but I passionately believe humanity should be starting to unite.

That’s why Salmond revolts me. He seeks to devide our nation – in many ways he shares the shortsighted xenophobia as Farage, clinging to outdated boundaries, not tolerating difference or new ways of thinking. Theirs is an outdate, regressive discourse. Moreover, if you listen to Salmond speak, he does not adress the bi subjects CaMoron and Darling are, but attacks the present government and the tories personally. It is as if he wants to frame the entire independence debate as an attack on the coalition. Of course, I’ve nothing against tory bashing, but in two years they should be history, and the island will have been split after three hundred years of union as a gesture of opposition to a single government. I notice too how Salmond is itching for his ‘debate’ with CaMoron, but why? Alistair darling is head of the campaign to keep the union so Samond should debate him, but instead he wants to turn the entire referendum into an anti-tory, anti-camoron issue. This tactic shows Samond has no real arguments, and, motivated by personal ambition and nationalism, simply wants to become ruler of his own realm, which he intends to create for himself. This is not about what is best for scotland, but Salmond’s lust for power. Why else would he want to debate camoron ersonally, if not to elevate his own status? Why just focus on the short term? Time and again, the economic and social case for independence has been called into question, and every time Salmond replies by avoiding the issues and attacking the current government. He is a joke; Scotland deseerves better than to be mislead.