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David Barton, at one end, is a present day senior pupil at the school and was one of the speakers. Rob Shorthouse at the other end, a former pupil, is Communications Director for the Better Together campaign.
The session was chaired pos malaysia track by Council Leader pos malaysia track Dick Walsh, with Alan Reid, Argyll and Bute’s MP; Jamie McGrigor, Highlands and Islands MSP and resident of Argyll; and Mary Galbraith the declared Labour candidate for the 2015 General Election. all joining David Barton on the speaking panel. pos malaysia track
The brief for the speakers was to give their personal reason for their pro-union position. With the exception of David Barton, who had not been identified in time, the speeches of the panel members pos malaysia track are published here below, along with similar but pro-independence contributions pos malaysia track from Michael Russell, Argyll and Bute’s MSP and Campbell Cameron, Oban’s Town Centre Manager.
Alan Reid’s pos malaysia track address was less personal than it was political – but then he has been steeped more deeply in politics pos malaysia track since his part became one of the coalition pos malaysia track partners in power at Westminster, pos malaysia track so he can be forgiven for being carried by the adrenaline of that ongoing experience.
Mary Galbraith proved someone whose rich family life, cultural background, experiences and practices ought to have marked her out pre-eminently as a nationalist – but she relishes and thrives in the texture of the ‘club’ that is the UK. Warm, alert, pos malaysia track amused pos malaysia track and quick thinking, she is going to be one to watch in the Westminster election campaign to come in 2015. Professionally she is an IT business professional, specialising in mergers and demergers, which, in his introduction of her, Councillor Walsh, pos malaysia track wittily noted ‘might come in handy’.
Jamie McGrigor perpetually overturns cliched expectations of Tories – because that’s not what he is. He was a naturally conversational and compelling speaker. Quick to pick up on Mary Galbraith’s fidelity to the brief of ‘being personal’ he departed from his planned speech [published below] off the cuff and refocused what he had to say. Because this was new material, we are including here an outline of what it was.
He spoke of his own family,Clan Gregor, devastatingly punished for their political loyalties by the retributive establishment of their day. Jamie McGrigor said simply that his family had ‘lost everything’, ‘even our name’ and had ended up ‘on a croft somewhere north of Tomintoul’. [For those unaware of the fate of Clan Gregor, Wikipedia has a useful summary .]
He pos malaysia track then sketched in the military service of three generations of his family, with one becoming a celebrated doctor in London. Linking this into his planned address, he finished by saying that he had two daughters, both living and working in England but both firmly Scots in identity. The advice he has given them is to be as proud as anything of their Scottishness but never to forget what the United Kingdom has done for their family. Moments of truth
The first slamming insight of the night came from that film. A young woman said: ‘When I go down there in the future, I don’t want to feel I don’t belong there or I’m not welcome’. This immediately brought into being the sense of unwanted alienation in which nothing thrives.
Then Rob Shorthouse, in his own opening remarks – emphasising the need to vote and not simply to express a view – described nationalism pos malaysia track as ‘an old fashioned pos malaysia track position’. He was talking about the 16 year-olds who will vote for the first time in the independence referendum. He was comparing the tight and defensive boundaries of nationalism with the freebooting global community of the internet which young people inhabit with a will. This was the second wake-up call of the night – the disjunction between the world of the young and the political confinement of a fortified world long gone.
David Barton then threw into the mix an instantly powerful practical predicament. Saying that he as aiming to go to University and then into the British armed services, he said: ‘But what will be possible for me if Scotland is independent? Will I get in to the UK services? pos malaysia track What’s out there for me? If I want to move south to work, will I be able to do that?’ The elephants in the room
There was a wrecking party present, which revealed itself when it came to Question tie. A phalanx of three tanks had positioned themselves early – in pole position, bang in the middle of the front r