Alex Salmond has gone rather quiet this summer. Before Britain’s season of fun, the SNP leader appeared unstoppable in his quest for Scottish independence, but the Diamond Jubilee and Olympics have halted Salmond’s momentum. The Mayor of London crystallised this feeling yesterday during one of his #askboris sessions on Twitter:
‘The Scots are never going to vote for independence…these games have done for Salmond…vote Hoy’
The SNP retaliated today, with Kenneth Gibson MSP lambasting one ‘Boris Johnston’:
Commenting on Boris Johnston’s claims that the Olympics will have an
effect on how Scotland votes at the referendum for independence, SNP
MSP Kenneth Gibson, said:“The more Boris speaks out against independence, the better it will be
for the Yes campaign. And the more the anti-independence campaign is
seen to be led by the Tories, the more support for an independent
Scotland will grow.“This cack-handed attempt by Boris to politicise the Games is a
serious error of judgement – the anti-independence campaign is
grasping at straws, and people will react against it.
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