ANDY Maciver predicts that Scottish Labour will change its policy to one of support for indyref2. In doing so, he shows his lack of awareness that such a change would require the consent of the party’s membership through conference decisions. This would be unlikely, as the one thing which the party requires its members to sign up to is the principle that “by the strength of our common endeavour, we achieve more than we achieve alone”.
This principle is about as close to a polar opposite to the divisive binary politics of indyref2 as could be imagined. And besides, those who seek independence and another referendum to achieve it already have another party to join.
Peter A Russell, Glasgow.
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Hi Peter, I realised today I had not seen you on twitter for ages – I have always enjoyed your posts – are you off it permanently or under another twitter handle?
Hello Steve – I hadn’t seen your message so apologies. The answer is that I gave twitter a break and then my account expired and I am not missing it. I was also a bit concerned that I was spending too much time on it – and that it was making me a less nice person.
Thanks for the comments. But it is a chapter that is closed – unless we are faced with indyref2.