Bitter Together are fuming as they can't find famous Scots to back No campaign

"A lot of people think we’re all going to fall flat on our face if we do this. We’re too feisty a people to let things turn bad if we went and tried it. Why not? Why not try at least?"

Kevin McKidd

 

Kevin is a talented Scots actor from Elgin who appeared in Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting and currently stars in US TV series Gray's Anatomy.

Bitter Together are fuming, they can't find anyone famous to back their campaign!

All they can come up with is English people who have a tenuous link to Scotland like J K Rowling who once lived here while writing a kids book or Emma Thomson who can do an almost passable Scottish accent.  Oh and of course there's the famous bra manufacturer and a fitba manager who plies his trade in England and soup and teacake makers. Oh and a millionaire Tory donor (based in London, what a shock) who is funding most of their campaign!

Against this parcel of minor level and irrelevant rogues we have:

Author and Booker Prize Winner: James Kelman

A large number of genuine Scots actors including the patriotic Mr Kidd above and the most famous Scotsman ever Sean Connery (who has backed indy since endorsing Winnie Ewing in Hamilton at the height of his fame as James Bond)

Alasdair Gray, our greatest living writer

Joseph Stiglitz a Noble Prize Winner

Iain Banks one of Scotland's most brilliant and successful authors

Blair Jenkins a former head of the BBC

Michael Fry a leading historian

Dougie MacLean writer of Caledonia

Dick Gaughan, perhaps our most famous folk singer

Various TV actors

Irvine Welsh, writer

Brian Cox, famous Scots actor

Frankie Boyle, comedian who has 1.4M followers on Twitter!

Plus top Scots singers like Karine Polwart, Eddi Reader, Pat Kane, The Proclaimers and Deacon Blue

and many others...

In fact almost everyone who has actually made a significant impact on Scots culture in the last few decades is backing normal status for Scotland.

Also from outside Scotland:

Adrian Dunbar - Irish Actor and Director

Ken Loach - English Director

Peter Tatchell - English Civil Rights Activist and Equality campaigner

John C Reilly - American Actor

All of whom back Scots indy

and from the past the greatest figures in Scottish History!

Robert Burns

William Wallace

Robert Bruce

Sir Walter Scott

Robert Louis Stevenson

John MacLean

James Connolly

Hugh MacDiarmid

The signers of the Declaration of Arbroath also ring out from history

"It is in truth not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom – for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself."

Given that the Yes campaign can boast all the above and also the direct support of our elected SNP Scottish Government it's no wonder the little Britons of BT are so bitter about Mr McKidd, and they are very bitter indeed as can be seen on the comments on this article in the Scotsman:

http://www.scotsman.com/news/celebrity/scottish-independence-kevin-mckidd-would-say-yes-1-2882132


He says he's a patriot and I believe it. I don't believe the various non-entities on the Bitter Together site who claim to be patriotic about absolutely everything apart from actually wanting Scotland to rule our own affairs!