More facts, less rhetoric

If Nicola Sturgeon wants to build confidence in Scotland's ability to go it alone, she needs to do so on the foundation of facts, not rhetoric. Information, not assertion. Reality, not spin. Otherwise it's just so much hot air and, as we have already seen, that doesn't go far. Calton has really struggled to summon up the enthusiasm to blog about the SNP's spring conference because it just seems like the same old, same old stuff. They can't win on rational argument so they have to appeal to the emotions. Of course Scotland could go it alone - very few people who are planning to vote NO think that it can't. They just think it would be better not to. Small is not always beautiful. The SNP are also not helping their cause by acting like mini-dictators - Calton was actually an 'undecided' with regard to independence until the SNP started throwing their weight around and ignoring the voters who put them in power, like the people who turned up to hand a petition against windfarms in to the SNP conference. Alex Salmond refused to meet them. If Scotland votes NO in 2014 the SNP have only themselves to blame.