WINGS Over Scotland is just awaiting the green light from Nicola Sturgeon to publish “Wee Blue Two” – a sequel to the Wee Blue Book which proved such an effective campaigning tool during the first referendum.

Stuart Campbell (pictured below, left), the journalist behind the pro-indy website, said he plans to print a million copies for Yes groups to deliver into the hands of undecided voters when indyref2 is called.

The first Wee Blue Book was billed as a “book of facts that the papers leave out” about the case for independence, and was hailed by Yes campaigners as a vital tool which they said was able to persuade undecideds.

Campbell and his team printed 300,000 copies in 2014 – and it was also downloaded more than 800,000 times.

Content for the new edition is in production at the moment, he says, ready to go when the trigger on a new vote is pulled.

Campbell was speaking as part of a wide-ranging exclusive interview for The Alex Salmond Show.

“The whole point of Wings Over Scotland is to get to the next referendum and put another Wee Blue Book in people’s hands,”

he said. “We’ll be printing four to five times as many this time because I think it is very powerful to give people facts. That’s the thing we do above anything else.

“We admit that we’re biased, we’re pro-independence. But every claim that we make, every fact we assert, we give you to the link. You go and look at them. Decide for yourself if we’re telling the truth or not.”

Former First Minister Salmond told The National the first Wee Blue Book had a “profound impact” on the referendum campaign.

“I only became aware of as I was doing interviews,” he said.

“People started waving the Wee Blue Book at me, at meetings and in the streets … and that’s where I learned about it. It was going off the shelves like hot cakes in 2014.

“It had a big effect in the latter stages of the referendum campaign.”

Salmond, who has hosted Campbell’s fellow blogger Craig Murray on show in recent months, said that the new online media had filled a gap left by Scotland’s traditional newspapers.

He told The National: “The online world of blogging is clearly very important. Our two shows on bloggers so far have over 300,000 combined views on Facebook. It indicates just how these things break through.

“The world of online blogging has filled a vacuum that serious newspapers have evacuated. But it’s still a fairly enclosed space of people energised by politics.

“Whereas the Wee Blue Book is an example of a breakout from the virtual world to the real world.

“And that it was a book full of facts as well ... the opposite of the slogan on the Brexit bus.

“It was totally counter-typical in the modern age.”

Elsewhere in the interview, Campbell reveals how he is disappointed in the SNP leadership, not in terms of the timing of the next vote, but in a lack of preparation. He tells Salmond he would like to see the question of whether a referendum could be held without a Section 30 order tested in court.

You can see the full interview today on the Alex Salmond Show, broadcast on RT International at 7.30am, 6.30pm and 11.30pm.