Wednesday 11 January 2012
Get on with it Alex
Regular readers of this blog will know that Calton is not in favour of a snap referendum on independence. He thinks that at least some time is needed to thrash out the pros and cons of leaving the union, however Autumn 2014 is far too far away. Depending on Alex Salmond's definition of Autumn, it could be 34 months before the ballot. That is nearly 3 years of legal wrangling and political point-scoring which will not inspire business confidence in Scotland and which will be a massive distraction from the real problems we are facing. Calton thinks that the SNP should bring the referendum forward to Autumn 2013 - that is still in the second half of the current parliament and it's not as if they haven't been thinking about it for long enough. Time for them to actually get on with it.
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