BORIS Johnson landed a whopping majority with a whopping lie summed up in three words: “Get Brexit Done”. Starmer channelled the electorate’s horror of another devastating Tory administration with one word – “Change”.
Starmer’s C word turned out to be as big a lie as anything Johnson ever produced.
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But it does underline the point that short and snappy has it over dignified argument, truth and cogent content. We need to boil things down. So let’s go one step further to acronyms – summing up the argument thus – CSS v FFS: Colonial Status Scotland v Free Functioning Scotland.
It has the added and politically startling advantage of actually being true…
Amanda Baker
Edinburgh
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