An independent Scotland?

The Scottish referendum will be held in two weeks time. How have Friends north of the border prepared for it and what vision of Scotland do they have? In the first of two articles, we publish the considerations made by South East Scotland Area Meeting

by Alastair Cameron and Phil Lucas 5th September 2014

Scotland’s referendum campaign has been both unexpected and protracted.

Unexpected because it springs from the outright majority won by the Scottish National Party (SNP) in the Holyrood election of 2011 – in a parliament whose proportional representation system had been designed to deny any single party an outright majority. Protracted in that it has formally been under way for almost two years, since the ‘Edinburgh Agreement’ between David Cameron, the prime minister, and Alex Salmond, Scotland’s first minister and leader of the SNP, in October 2012.