Letters / Positively negative
Douglas, regarding your letter A new beginning; SN, 19/10/13, an illegal immigrant is someone who is a foreigner and who has entered or resides in a country unlawfully and without that country’s authorisation and more often than not without that country’s knowledge.
Just a little problematic for said country to know they have even entered, making it impossible to know where and who they are.
Sheep are tagged by law; fishing vessels have GPS tracking by law; so hardly worthy of comparison to illegal immigrants, unless of course you are scaremongering.
It is a well-known and published fact that the Scottish government’s green energy policy is contributing to fuel poverty of thousands of Scottish families.
Yet you have been saying the green energy policy of the SNP in an independent Scotland will be good for Scotland and Shetland. Would you care to explain yourself?
Between 2010 and 2012 household electricity prices increased by 10 per cent in real terms, due mainly to climate change policies and subsidies paid to wind farm operators. This is without taking power companies price hikes into consideration.
In Perth this week Nicola Sturgeon promises to cut energy bills by 5 per cent, but only if you vote Yes for independence; a bribe which she said would be paid for by EU money currently paid to Westminster.
Would someone ask Ms Sturgeon how Scotland would receive this EU money if we were not a member of the EU?
I note you have adopted the post Perth YESNP’s tactics of “McFear” in your letter making your comments if not scaremongering, positively negative.
Douglas, it is not positive to blindly go through an open door when you don’t know what is on the other side; it is plainly dumb. Once through that door it is firmly locked, shutting off any hope of return.
You and those like you will go through that door without any information of what is behind it, and the fact that you have no real interest in having such information is positively mind numbing.
Somehow I think the people of Zimbabwe would disagree with your last statement; if they voiced such an opinion they would probably be shot, the same could be said for many other countries.
These countries do not have the option of returning because as will be the case in an independent Scotland, the door is firmly shut, so no point in even thinking about let alone seeking to return.
Douglas, I am afraid you are going to have to come up with something better than this to convince the people you call the “close the door its nothing to do with me”-brigade on your Yes Shetland Facebook page.
What you call the “passivity of many citizens” on the same Facebook thread is actually a desire to be allowed to think for themselves and make an informed decision with real information and facts instead of the everyday rhetoric and McFear tactics of the Yes brigade.
Gordon Harmer
Brae
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