Speech by an admin who attended a debate today on behalf of Better Toegther: Good afternoon everyone. It’s an honour for me to have been invited to this debate, my first ever chaired debate. As a young person like yourselves I believe it is incredibly important that it is people our age who engage in the debate as the outcome will affect us and future generations the most. It is us who have to think of our further education, our apprenticeships, our jobs, our mortgages, our savings, our energy bills and so on. I’m a principled person, I don’t sit on the fence about many things, so I’m going to tell you how it is, the bread and butter. The Yes campaign does sound impressive, if you were just to listen to them loosely and not really take anything in. They use lots of impressive sounding adjectives and emotive language which is exactly what they think voters want to hear. WE are smarter than that, WE know you need substance to an argument and WE know it’s all very well to make sweeping statements but backing them up is another thing entirely and something they cannot do. Better Together are asked what will occur if independence happens and we tell you the facts, it’s not scaremongering, it is what WILL happen. WE are right to question our future, WE are right to raise our concerns, WE are right to believe RBS, Lloyds, Tunnocks and the rest in what they are saying is best for US, what is best for Scotland. Think about your daily lives just now, you already have your own personal independence to do things you want. You don’t walk about with a ball and chain attached to your ankle slowing you down and holding you back.Personal independence is important at our age as you don’t want to be told what to do by your parents or teachers, or I certainly don’t anyway. But when things go wrong I seek assistance from others to help me sort out any mistakes I make. Scotland does have a considerable level of independence but we also need a degree of interdependence we’re not held back by a ball and chain, WE have devolution, WE have the power to make our own mind up on health issues, on education and on transport among other things. WE are already free, we’re not held back by a ball and chain. We are not ‘persecuted.’ I don’t need to insult your intelligence as it is plain to see what your vote should be on September the 18th and that vote should be NO.
Posted on: Mon, 15 Sep 2014 17:16:35 +0000
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