If it is true, as one analyst has said today, that the new opinion poll on independence from TNS-BMRB shows the ball is rolling towards the SNP, it will be particularly unwelcome news for the Scottish Secretary Michael Moore and Treasury minister Danny Alexander, who have spent the last few days furiously trying to push the ball in the other direction.
In co-ordinated speeches last week, the Coalition ministers launched attacks on the case for independence designed to reverse or stall the SNP’s perceived momentum on the issue, but for the most part it all felt a little like an old train travelling on familiar lines. Mr Alexander, Mr Moore and others who support strong devolved government within the Union have rightly recognised it’s important there is a robust challenge to the SNP. However, the ministers’ arguments – particularly Mr Alexander’s warning that Scotland could be left with £65m of the UK’s national debt – are likely to have felt to many like more of the no-no arguments we’ve heard before.
Poll result could be a wake-up call
If it is true, as one analyst has said today, that the new opinion poll on independence from TNS-BMRB shows the ball is rolling towards the SNP, it will be particularly unwelcome news for the Scottish Secretary Michael Moore and Treasury minister Danny Alexander, who have spent the last few days furiously trying to push the ball in the other direction.
In co-ordinated speeches last week, the Coalition ministers launched attacks on the case for independence designed to reverse or stall the SNP’s perceived momentum on the issue, but for the most part it all felt a little like an old train travelling on familiar lines. Mr Alexander, Mr Moore and others who support strong devolved government within the Union have rightly recognised it’s important there is a robust challenge to the SNP. However, the ministers’ arguments – particularly Mr Alexander’s warning that Scotland could be left with £65m of the UK’s national debt – are likely to have felt to many like more of the no-no arguments we’ve heard before.
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