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!

Hope will trump Fear - the case for YES

The case for independence is very simple. We are in an unequal union with a country ten times our size who has very little in common with us politically. What we need is equality in world affairs ie a seat in the UN and full control over all domestic and foreign policy. That is likely to be from within the EU but if the unlikely prospect of being forced to leave the EU actually happened (in which case England would be in the same boat) then EFTA is actually a reasonable and probably popular alternative.

Of course what the UK is now saying is that England and its dominions (as they see it though I am sure Wales won't accept such a status for long post Scots independence though NI probably will) would be treated entirely differently from Scotland because the rest of the UK (rUK) would be treated as the successor state.

Westminster is so desperate for a legal opinion that rUK/England will be the only successor state that they now are saying that Scotland was politically extinguished by the union, that Scotland leaving the UK would have no effect on its status whatsoever and that every treaty signed by Britain had no connection with one of the main countries that was a part of it!

Logically this means that Scotland has got nothing from being in the union apart from a tenth share in Britain's enormous national debt and if we had zero status within the union there is no reason why we should accept that either!

This doesn't strike me as a positive case for the union and directly contradicts their traditional narrative that we have all being doing great things together for the last 300 years and we just can't afford to break our beautiful friendship. No doubt this will be deployed as well in time but it rather undermines that case when you admit that what was supposed to be an equal British union was actually just a device to expand English power abroad. (That's the raw truth but Westminster must be in dire straits to be actually admitting it).

The Tory Government and their friends in the press seem to think that its OK to stigmatise the unemployed as lazy wasters and chancers and that workers should be encouraged to sell out all their working rights to their employer at the beginning of their working life This type of political attitude is alien to the Scots psyche and the obvious choice is to remain with Conservative rule (or their Labour imitators) or take a chance on trusting ourselves.

Eventually hope always trumps fear so I suggest the YES campaign has an excellent chance of victory.