Letters / Immediate impact
When the Prime Minister made his plea to the people of Wales, Northern Ireland and England on Friday to influence their friends and family to vote for continued Westminster rule the effects were felt within 24 hours.
Support for www.facebook.com/YesScotland increased by over 400 from 126,639 befoe the speech to 127,071 after.
Our own www.facebook.com/YesShetland page jumped over two per cent to 1,052, whilst www.facebook.com/pages/Better-Together-Shetland/588825371130091 at 144, showed no increase at all.
Both Facebook and Twitter lit up after the desperate plea by Mr Cameron with messages from south of the border but they were of support for our quest to gain independence including requests to take Yorkshire, Northumberland etc with us!
Many of the messages can be seen at www.wingsoverscotland.com/ask-and-ye-shall-receive/
The politics of Scotland and Westminster are diverging daily but the people are uniting in a common cause.
Only one country has the power to change that.
Vote Yes on 18 September.
Douglas Young
Yes Shetland
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