Glenrothes - Last few days of campaigning

With only a few days left of campaigning in Glenrothes things are certainly hotting up! What I found out in Glasgow East is that the last week of the campaign is the most crucial as it's usually the last few days before the by-election when voters finally decide who they intend to vote for! Now, obviously we would like as many as possible to vote SNP, but I'm not going to pretend that it's not going to be a fight to win! However, I am pretty confident. So far I have campaigned in the constituency five times, and I'm making my next journey tomorrow, and the response which we have had has been incredibly encouraging! Even if we're just delivering leaflets through doors people have come out of their houses just to tell us that we can count on their vote! People, even in Cardenddon, have been coming up to us and asking for window posters! Cyclists whizzing past us are giving us thumbs up! And, as if that wasn't enough, a report in today's Scotsman newspaper said that both the "SNP and Labour agree on one thing - Glenrothes will go Nationalist"!! The report even went on to state that one Labour source conceded "If the SNP are predicting a win, they are being more realistic than hubristic"!!

So while I'm not taking anything for granted and I'm not saying that it's in the bag for the SNP, once you get your opponents conceding defeat this close to polling day you just can't help but feel good!

SNP - Moving Scotland Forward

"Now is the time for an Age of Responsibility"

"Scotland's destiny is Independence"! Just a small sample from what was, as always, a great speech by our First Minister and SNP leader Alex Salmond! He hit back brilliantly at the Prime Minister for saying that Scotland is too stupid to go towards Independence and also, rightly, said that it was wrong of him to bad mouth other countries! But not only that he also came forward with the facts and figures and proved that Norway, Finland, Sweden and Denmark (all small independent countries with similar populations to Scotland) are all forecast NOT to go into recession! Something which Gordon Brown failed to mention when attacking Independence. "Sub-Prime! More like Sub-Prime Minister" was the way Alex put it! He also called for an end to the age of irresponsibility of the past decade under Brown and called for the beginning of an Age of Responsibility! After all, it is the reckless borrowing and not saving up for a bad day by Gordon Brown that has in no dought caused this financial crisis! Alex also said that the millions of Scotland's money that is currently held by Westminster in an ofgem bank should be released back to the Scottish people where it rightly belongs! So, all in all, it marked an end to yet another fantastic conference which saw the SNP get its 15,000th member!! As Labour continues to lose and abandon its members, the SNP continues to gain and, as a recent study which was presented to conference has shown, all of that previous Labour support had gone directly to the SNP!!

And as for Gordon Brown questioning Scottish Independence, my message to him is this - It doesn't matter how big or small your country is! All that matters is how smart your people are and for the Prime Minister to be saying that Scotland is too stupid and too poor to run its own affairs is not only insulting, but depressing as well!!