Bullying Tactics Backfires on Scottish ‘No Campaign’

United Kingdom Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne’s bullying statements on currency union are starting to backfire. The revolting spectacle of English Tory Osborne being joined by Labour shadow chancellor Ed Balls and Liberal Democrat Danny Alexander to try and intimidate Scotland’s voters did not go down well. The Scottish National Party leader and Scotland’s First Minister Alex Salmond has described the joint attack from the United Kingdom political parties as “a concerted bid by a Tory-led Westminster establishment to bully and intimidate". 

This is now being reflected in latest opinion poll findings showing a surge in support for the pro Independent ‘Yes’ campaign following Osborne’s hectoring intervention,  with one poll showing that the gap between Yes and No narrowing to 4 points. In doing so the voters seem to have agreed with the words of Scotland's Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon's response to the chancellor's statement as reported in the Guardian last week. http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/feb/12/uk-parties-bully-rejecti...