Letters / Disastrous result
IT IS true that attack is the best form of defence and Douglas Young has come out fighting (The real winner; SN, 24/01/14) just when he and the SNP are on a massive losing streak. Humiliating defeats in two by-elections and 18 council elections in a row.
Douglas forgot to say how significant this defeat is for the SNP who just a few weeks ago published their independence manifesto “Scotland’s Future”.
This enlightening document of biblical proportions does not seem to have had the desired affect on the Cowdenbeath electorate if this result is anything to go by.
Douglas then goes on to say “no one is interested in by-elections really”.
Well he is and I am, and so are thousands of Scots who are wondering why with this by election so close to the referendum it did not provide a vote for the SNP, which in turn would have been a vote in support of Independence.
It simply points to the fact that the Scottish people do not want independence and a swing of 11.25 per cent from the SNP to Labour tells us they are fed up with the present government as well.
It amazes me how Douglas calls the SNPs election win in 2011 a landslide when only half the electorate got off their bums to vote and the SNP only attracted 45 per cent of those voters. This works out at less than a quarter of the Scottish electorate. Then he has the audacity to comment on the low turnout in this by-election.
As for the doorstep poll conducted by the SNP canvassers; that can be taken with the same pinch of salt we take Salmond’s assertions on the EU and the pound.
Douglas is right when he says they never miss a trick because just for the record, Labour claim to have held the same poll and guess what, they announced a similar result in favour of a no vote.
This was a disastrous result for the SNP and the Yes brigade and a massive indication of a vote for common sense in September.
Gordon Harmer,
Brae.
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