I NOTED Pete Wishart’s comment that the Alba party is “more interested in converting people from the SNP to Alba", rather than convincing No voters to back independence”.
I must respond to that revelation by asking: “What took you so long to arrive at that conclusion, Pete?”
When Alba was first formed, it didn’t take Einstein to figure that winning SNP voters over had to be their target and independence could wait. Unfortunately they appear to have taken a lead from the rest of the anti-SNP opposition and adopted “by fair means or foul” as their motto.
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This fact was brought home to me during the AUOB rally in Dundee, when Alba MP Neale Hanvey gave a speech in which he assured us that Nicola Sturgeon’s leadership qualities are non-existent, plus some other comments which I think could be fairly described as scraping the bottom of the barrel.
Finally, I also attended the AUOB rally in Arbroath, which convinced me that there are those in the independence movement who, in their dreams, see AUOB as “Alba Under One Banner.”
Malcolm Cordell
Dundee
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