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Posted on September 14, 2014 by

Alert readers will remember that Gordon Brown, who is apparently some sort of former politician, has recently been spreading the completely baseless scare story that Scots would no longer receive organ transplants or blood transfusions from other people in the UK (and vice versa) in the event of independence.

On Friday night, before the Orange Order marched in the streets of Edinburgh with “NO POPERY” banners, a young woman with a life-limiting illness called Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency climbed the face of Edinburgh Castle with oxygen strapped to her back and tubes up her nose. (The only cure for A1AD is a double lung transplant.)

This is what she did there.

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And this was her message to Gordon Brown:

“You may have scared me and my family for a short time but as is the pattern from Westminster, your lies were uncovered and you failed to capture me in your disgusting web of deceit.

We have nothing to add to it.

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john j

Inspiring!

A.N.Surgent

Apart from this lady is a very brave and determined woman

heedtracker

I had trouble reading this with watery stuff in my peepers, allergies probably. What ever happens next Thursday, Crash, the Flipper, BetterTogetherBBC, Project Fear, have all failed no matter how rich it makes them.

mato21

All I can say to this inspiring young lady is may all your dreams come true in our Independent Scotland

YoungNED

Gordon Brown is above reproach in normal circumstances, with those who criticise bearing the brunt of backlash. She has done a beautiful thing that he cannot retaliate to, and I thank her for the inspiration.

Jamie H

Wow, what an inspiration, puts in perspective what we can do when we put our minds to it, and deal with the negatives! She will give hope to many others!

Jan Cowan

The brave lass says it all.

McTim

What an amazing woman. You have more integrity in your fingertips than Gordon Brown has in his entire body.

Moravian

One wee correction, it was the night before the OO march.

John H.

I hope this young woman will inspire people to vote YES on Thursday.There’s nothing to be afraid of.

Big Jock

But we are all tribal anti English nationalists! Well done where there is shock and awe let Yes bring hope. Darling on hyper drive on Andrew Made. Is he going for Guineas book of records how many fears can you fit into one sentence. The guy is going to implode. I still suspect he is a cyborg.Do you know what he sounds like a hectoring grannie…

Graham

Gordon brown should be made to make a grovelling apology on tv to all the people he is putting in pearil , he is a disgusting little rat. Scotland is behind you and everyone else that has to deal with such a hard time in their life’s and hope u all get all the help you need good luck and god bless

Barbara Watson

What an inspiring and beautiful young lady.

Her actions speak louder than Gordon Browns impotent words.

Big Jock

Andrew Marr damn you spell check. Darling said Scotland wouldn’t get bullied into something it didn’t want! Can you believe the nerve of that man.

Big Jock

Oh he’s back on foreigners again!

Rosa Alba Macdonald

Someone at my supposedly Udecided/Birthday Party (mostly Undecided guest list with a few Yes stalwarts and half a dozed WBB to do a conversion job, but all the undecided who turned up were now Yes) said a colleague of theirs, still No was going to vote Yes because if it did not happen NOW it would inevitably.

Hail Alba

Kevin

NO FEAR JUST BRAVERY -WHAT A LADY

Socrates MacSporran

Andrew Marr Show – Alex Salmond 1 Alistair Darling 0: 2-1 aggregate victory for Wee Eck.

It was the same-old, same-old from Darling. Bluster, evasion, downright lies – he recycled the pension threat yet again.

Again, it was a case of AD being allowed to spout his guff unchecked. For instance, he wasn’t challenged about the no more power threats from the Tory right.

All the bad stuff was coming from Yes, according to him.

The man is a disgrace. Never mind, come Friday, he will be history and totally discredited.

Stevie boy

I won’t now down to our ‘Imperial Masters’.. but I will bow down to this inspiring woman. Hat off to you.

Thank you for your courageous efforts.

We all need to give 100% for the next 4 days.. this MUST happen.. and can!!

Ann

Well done that young lady and hopefully you will get your transplant and live a long, fulfilling and happy life.

Bob Sinclair

What an incredibly brave & inspiring act.

If they want to remove that YES they should make Gordon Brown climb up & remove it himself.

Grizzle McPuss

Humbled

Barry2935

I thought Salmond was excellent on the Andrew Marr show – calm, assured and expert. Darling on the other hand…someone seemed to have upped the robotic voltage, he was so jittery he seemed ready to take off from the seat and fly into orbit! So many scare stories, so little time…doesn’t compute, doesn’t compute, Danger Will Robinson, Danger..zzzzzz!!

Holebender

The only thing we have to fear is…fear itself.

Mike

I think Jim Sillars is spot on. There should be some kind of reckoning after a Yes vote when all the scares and fears are exposed as foundationless & fantasy.
Certainly as far as the media is concerned.
There are so called journalists and reporters who should be named and shamed and exposed to the world as charlatans and peddlers of deceit. Their reputations should be covered in the same brown excrement they themselves spread across this whole debate. They should be hounded wherever they decide to pop up and write again.
They should be hounded out of the profession in disgrace.
They shouldn’t be allowed any licence to print anything further without being reminded of their past transgressions and deliberate dishonesty.
They were given a position of trust and chose deliberately to betray that trust for personal ambition.
Worse than politicians it is they who are supposed to keep political corruption in check not revel in it and promote it as something aspirational.

Robert Louis

This lady is a Scottish legend.

Gordon brown is a fraud, running around Scotland lying to the sick and vulnerable. The words I want to use to describe that low life, would have me arrested – although they would be true. Deliberately lying to the sick people of his own country, just to re-launch his own pathetic failed cowardly career. Sick. Sick and twisted.

Why oh why would ANY person still support Labour or a NO vote?? Even yesterday, I got a brochure shoved through my door, with Lamont lying that Scotland cannot use the pound – despite everybody (including Alistair Darling) and their granny now knowing that is a lie.

Wise up Labour folks. You are being right royally lied to and abused.

This story will not of course feature in ANY Scottish newspaper or on the blatantly propagandist and anti Scotland pravdaBBC.

Vote YES.

dennis mclaughlin

Gordon Brown will shortly be crawling back into obscurity,
Kudos to the young lady for ignoring all the fear mongering.

Lewy Tee Bee

What an astonishing person! This, this is why we will win.

[…] We are not afraid […]

benarmine

A courageous woman and a courageous act, exposing that disgrace of a man in his lies.

Northerndiver

Darling, nobody is listening to you anymone. You’re like an empty shell-suit blowing in the wind.

Wee Alex

BBC Referendum Live tweet

09:55: ‘Best of both worlds’ Scotland “won’t be bullied into accepting something it doesn’t want”, says Mr Darling. He claims that a “Yes” would bring “the best of both worlds”.

Darling now voting yes?

David Maguire

This is really powerful but is the timescale right? I think it went up on Friday night/Saturday morning rather than after the Orange march which would have been last night.

Lanarkist

Willpower and positivity is strong with this Lady! Seems Yes have those qualities in abundance and then some.
The will of the people is for freedom, freedom to make our own way, our own decisions and our own future.

It is now snowballing down the slope to the 18th and is unstoppable.

We can, must and will do this!

Wee Alex

BBC now changed the quote, it’s a No!!!

bookie from hell

she’s queen of Scotland before/after sept 18th

one less day

I cannot believe the FM would consider asking these lying people to help frame our new country

I for one would be most disappointed if this were the case

msean

Saw the image online,but didn’t realise it was this lady who did it. What a supreme effort,well done.

Jaki McCarthy

Inspirational young woman. Well said and so say all of us

Grouse Beater

A heroine in the making.

Well done, lassie, well done.

Carol Jardine

That young woman is an inspiration to people everywhere, not just to Yessers.

I’ll pass on her achievement to as many folk as I can.

With my best wishes and admiration…

Steve

I read that article in jaw dropping disbelief. The stuff of legend

Grouse Beater

Louis: Gordon Brown is a fraud,

Seconded.

And probably by another two million Scots and many English.

Stevie boy

Again, big BBC protest today at Pacific Quay at 2pm.. thousands expected to be there!

Also I believe it’s the Tories turn to come up to Glasgow tomorrow so we can all bow down to them.. I’m heading through.. wouldn’t miss this for the world. They really do think we have zips in the back of our heads.

I’m sure they will receive a ‘very warm welcome’.

scotsbob

We will not be bullied, we will not be intimidated, we will not be diverted, we will not be distracted.

We will be inspired, we will be determined, we will be positive, we will be ambitious

We will vote YES

Steve

There’s been quite a cast of characters in the no campaign. Ed Contraband, Nigel Falange and of course Gordon Brown and Alastair Darling trying to out do each other for the title of Toom Tabard.

yerkitbreeks

These magnificent efforts are truly moving – men like me are not supposed to get dewy eyed.

Murray McCallum

What a woman. All we are left to do is make a mark with a pencil.

pauline

I really don’t understand why the orange order are marching to stay in the UK. It makes no sense to me at all??

Steven Duff

Thank you.

gordoz

Jeezus tears in my eyes as I read that. What a lass.

Come on undecideds talk about courage !

Have the courage to join your brothers & sisters – lets make this happen by a big margin.

Met many foreign folks at C games. All said Scots indy ref quest always brought a smile to their faces.

Let a YES vote make them laugh with us on 19th, lets hear the world laugh with us in celebration.
Not laugh at us for being ‘duped fools’ yet again.

Let this young lady inspire aus all !

Natasha

Murray McCallum says:

14 September, 2014 at 10:23 am

What a woman. All we are left to do is make a mark with a pencil.

Use a pen, Murray, the rules allow it and then your X can’t be rubbed out. We’re also delivering our daughter’s postal vote to the polling station in person as we don’t trust the safety of the postal system.

WE ARE GOING TO WIN THIS FOLKS!!

Craig P

To this young woman, to the empire strikes back guy, to social campaigner Bob Holman, to Canon Kenyon Wright, to the greens, the radicals and the commonweal, to the artists and writers, to business for Scotland; I’ve looked at you. It’s an honour to be standing by you. I’ve looked at the private health care companies, the arms manufacturers, the BNP, UKIP, Daily Mail, Labour and Tories and the bankers who made us bust the last time.

And I’ve chosen my side.

Snode1965

I was in tears reading this girls words, not tears of sorrow, no tears of overwhelming pride. Pride in the real people of Scotland! Gordon Brown…… Westminster scum.

DG

This happened a day earlier than stated in the article.

Clootie

If (IF) Gordon Brown had an ounce of decency he would be contacing this young woman directly to apologise.

His scare stories are for him just another political tool. Well Gordon here is a face, a person being attacked by your unfounded political spin. Do you not feel ashamed?

To the young woman – well done. You have done more with this one act to put these lies in context than months of debate.

Stevie boy

At the end of all this the world will find out what we had to overcome to be victorious.. In this ‘democratic’ great country of ours.

All the lies and scaremongering and dirty tricks will be exposed and the REAL stories of the campaign will shine through.. this young lady will be one of the stars of that and will show the world just what inspiring people we have in Scotland.

The people WILL beat the corrupt establishment.

manandboy

4 precious days to go.

What to do in these few days ?

The NO Campaign want you to watch as much TV as possible

because that is where they are strongest.

So AVOID watching the Red Tories NO Campaign on TV.
.

And do not publicise what they say or do on the internet or social media.

Choose instead any way that promotes and spreads the

positive message of YES.

Ignore the polls.
.

Remember, NO are trying to dominate and control

what the electorate are thinking about during these 4 days

by flooding the media with their speakers

and pictures of their events and activities.

Anyone thinking about Yes on Thursday

will most likely vote Yes on Thursday.

And vice versa.
.

Fill your head with YES thoughts

then there will be no room for anything else.

We MUST stay positive at all times.

.
4 days to Independence, it’s amazing!

Let’s go get it!

JimnArlene

Amazing and inspirational, try and weasel out of that, ya great clunking fist.

Bigheed

Wow wow wow – this is the most inspiring story of many.

A YES vote MUST happen!! what kind of place will Scotland become in the event of a NO – we can never ever find out!

Natasha

By the way, has anyone thought about how we’re going to get truthful coverage of the actual count? Could Newsnet Scotland or one of the many wonderful sites we all go to for our information provide a running commentary on what the actual results are? With the power of the Internet and so many intelligent and resourceful people out there, we must be able to organise something whereby local election observers report back in real time to a central database/blog set up on this website or another one like it?
Just a thought.

macart763m

Now that is courage and inspiration.

Thursday 18th of September.

Let’s show corrupt government, corporate patronage and state compromised media the door.

NAE FEAR!

Grouse Beater

She climbed a sheer cliff face covered in protective wire.
And she reached her goal and planted her mark upon it.
What a wonderful metaphor for the Yes campaign

Jim Bo

Truly inspiring. Young woman, if you are reading this then know that you are an inspiration to us all.

pitchfork

What a heroine!

tombee

Tombee says,

Fantastic achievement makes us ordinary mortals feel somewhat inadequate.
Let’s demonstrate our total admiration for her by,
VOTING YES ON THE 18th Sept.

Andy Howie

Sky keep showing an ICM poll result Yes 49% No 42% Undecided 9%. I can’t find anything about this poll anywhere. Anyone know about it?

Ian Brotherhood

Who are the BTUKOKNVOBNOTHANKS heroes?

Their biggest ‘names’ specialise in frightening the living daylights out of pensioners.

Jim Thomson

For those who won’t be able to make it to PQ today (myself included), the anti-BBC Bias protest will be on Livestream in just over 3 hours here:

link to new.livestream.com

Victoria

link to m.scotsman.com

Considering that more people in Scotland are on the organ donation list than the rest of the UK, I certainly wouldn’t be concerned. Yet another scaremongering story proven to be just that.

manandboy

Natasha says:
14 September, 2014 at 10:29 am

All we are left to do is make a mark with a pencil.

Use a pen, Murray, the rules allow it and then your X can’t be rubbed out.
_________________________________________________________

In Natasha’s advice

she may have uncovered NO’s secret weapon – THE PENCIL

It’s so OBVIOUS.

Why do Councils supply pencils at the polling stations

when PENS would make for a much more SECURE poll.

Mary Pitcaithly says she wants to have a fair and secure result – but then she supplies pencils. It is so easy to rub out a pencil mark and to substitute it in the No box.

SPREAD THE WORD – TAKE A PEN

NO PENCILS

Stevie boy

Natasha

I agree. I wouldn’t be surprised if we win and the MSM are still telling us we didn’t quite make it!

Edward

I cannot find the words to give the above justice
Will be honest, tearing up!

It IS truly inspiring
I asked my wife who is a nurse and she advised that what this lady has, is debilitating

Hood

Andy Howie
This is it I think.
link to scotgoespop.blogspot.co.uk

cynicalHighlander

Wonderful young women.

Referendum phone in at 11am.

Ian Brotherhood

Petition, started by NNS, to bring broadcasting powers to Scotland:

link to thepetitionsite.com

WrinkleyReborn

Well done Gal, unlike Galloway, I take my hat off to you.

Whatever happened to the Westminster labour MP’s, Have they gone missing. I’ve not heard anything about them.

john j

Yesterday I made a journey from Ayr to Dumbarton including a walk across Glasgow city centre. Here is a report on my completely unscientific survey.

YES posters in windows were almost exclusively Yes. The only NO banner I saw attached to a home was on a mansion in Troon.

No badges were almost exclusively worn by middle-class, middle-aged folk while Yes badges were worn by a much broader cross-section but especially by younger student types.

Campaign groups followed the same profile as above but there were a lot more Yes campaigners. I met a YES group at the crossroads near Dumbarton football ground who were having a great time, singing and generally getting a good response. Near to them was a No group who were being mostly ignored and looked pretty fed up, we all agreed that the No campaigners are a right miserable bunch of fearties.

Whatever the outcome on Thursday things will never be the same again. The independence cat is out the bag.

NODROG

Gordon Brown – makes me feel sick watching the man. But for me the worst of all is John Reid(“Lord John”) he marched from Glasgow to London in protest at Thatcher’s policies but now, in my opinion, he is trying to protect his cloak of ermine and comfy leather seat in the House of Lords. Disgusting!!

Donna Franceschild

This should also inspire us to make sure we are all registered as organ donors. In the US people in need of transplants can be denied them if their health insurance plan doesn’t cover them. That’s the type of NHS successive UK governments, including Labour governments, have been steadily working towards. This will NOT be allowed to happen in an independent Scotland. Another good reason to vote YES.

George Quin

This brave woman echoes my own thoughts we will not be cowed by the elites in westminster and also in scotland labour should be ashamed of themselves whatever happens these people have lost all credibility left i can feel things changing for the better.

HandandShrimp

Andy Howie

I think that is today’s Sunday Telegraph ICM poll which has rattled a cage or two. The Panelbase poll today that has Yes on 49.4% and No on 50.6% also suggests that No can’t assume a victory.

The polls are all over the place but the if you distill the poll of polls for the last week (and there must be about 8 or 9) then it looks almost bang on 50/50. We can do this!

Susan

O/T 1000 copies of the WBB were snatched up at our stall in Stornoway. No one needed to explain what it was, people were looking for the WBB. Thank you Wings, this was a great success in Stornoway.

GrahamB

Well done that girl. That would not be an easy climb for someone with fully functioning lungs, an inspiration.

Jim Thomson at 10.39:
That’s probably the only way anything will be broadcast in this country. However, the place is hoachin with ‘foreign’ journalists so it will get coverage across the world. These guys probably used to look up to the BBC as an example of impartial broadcasting. Is this PQ5, thought it was PQ4 but I may have missed one when I was on holiday? Anyone know if we’re going to get numbers handed out as at PQ3 to show the correct number attending instead of the BBC’s woeful estimates?

Now's the Hour

A truly inspirational young woman. Comment on that, Westminster (once you’ve finished phoning round your chicken business pals). Off to PQ soon. Gonna be a great afternoon!

Mealer

John Beattie,BBC.
What do you think of that?

Grouse Beater

I’ll be zooming around Edinburgh these last crucial days in my old jalopy – see avatar – telling folk getting busy living or get busy dying!

If you see me wave or honk your horn.

malkymaddo

the young lady in question is a lovely lochaber lass by the name of Lindsay Jarret.Lindsay tells me her hope is to live a long and healthy life in an independant Scotland……lets make her wish come true on thursday

IcySpark

Meeting at George Square at 12:30 also for the BBC bias march to PQ

Mealer

Has this brave young woman been interviewed by the overseas media?

Shudder be ok

Tears streaming down my face

Grouse Beater

The Flaky Character of Deutsche Bank – grousebeater.wordpress.

Broadcast now – Andrew Neill has chosen to have Galloway on his programme, and for balance, Sheridan.

I smell a rat, and it isn’t Sheridan.

Nana Smith

A brave flower of Scotland.

Auld Rock

Way back when I cast my first vote I seem to remember that the pencil provided wrote with a thick ‘carbon black’ waxy line, a line that if you tried to rub out left a horrible black smeary mess that couldn’t go unnoticed but these pens seem to have fallen out of use. I’m minded of the old N.Irish unionists message to their supporters in the OO, vote early and vote often. Beware of the snake in the grass, it’ll be a unionist or a leftover turd from yesterdays Edinburgh march.

Auld Rock

sinky

And andrew neil referred to the terrorist having “all southern british accent”

horacesaysyes

Nicely done, and a perfect illustration of hope over fear, which is what we all need to display on Thursday to win this. 🙂

Helena Brown

What an inspiring young woman and a very brave one as well, another act which will go down into our history books because we are writing it now.
I will say bless you love, I am no Christian but I hope that they find you a transplant soon. If anyone deserves the chance to do something with your life it is you.

heraldnomore

What a stonker of a Sunday Herald today – one to keep

fred blogger

yes, an extraordinary act of courage and defiance.
the flower of symbolism, backed by action, not an, i(we) wish i’d (we’d) done it, but i (we) did it.
no longer, the many led by cowards who hyde themselves in their ivory towers of lies, deceit and manipulation.
they fully expected apathy to defeat us.
no longer will the few be able to use our blood, sweat, tears, to enrich themselves.
to leave us worn out, destitute, spent, discarded, like an m/t tooth paste tube.
no one rich, no one poor.
we all have a say now!
we are all sovereign.

Grouse Beater

Sinky: Andrew Neil referred to the terrorist having “all southern British accent”

Well observed. ‘Cockney’ accent sticks in his throat.

Helena Brown

Auld Rock may I suggest a black eyeliner pencil which will do the same thing. Not easily removed. Pens may cause them to nullify your vote.

msean

Yes Mr Galloway,and long grass will ensue,thought you didn’t do Labour anymore,being in a different party and a’ .

Grouse Beater

Galloway lying through his teeth on BBC’s Andrew Neill show – shouting wolf as loud as he can.

Yesterday’s rebel protecting his pension.

“I’ve been up all hours, till five in the morning,” says Galloway, confirming my observation of him in my blog:

George Galloway – Scourge of Scotland grousebeater

msean

Apart from the fact that as soon as a no vote is in,your new pals at sky and bbc will have the tories banjoed into power.

Helena Brown

This morning passed two young men with YES on their car and then at the crossroads at Halbeath there was a Jaguar with two No flags and a big NO sign on the back,not sure if it is the same auld Jag which is owned by someone in the houses opposite the Post Office in Dunfemline.
Gave the thumbs up sign yesterday to the man with the YES flag in his car, hope he knew we meant thumbs up, he did wave.

Wee Alex

I listened Pam Duncan-Glancy on the John Beattie show this morning on the reasons why she is voting no. A principled person no doubt but misguided.

In essence she believes in the Labour Party and their promises of a fairer Britain. Regrettably history is not on her side.

Set aside the economic crash of 2008, what did the Blair/Brown Government leave behind.

The one positive is the minimum wage, but even then, set at a lower rate that demanded by Trades Unions.

Despite the minimum wage the rich got richer and the poor got poorer. Browns tax raid on pension funds put them into deficit and that worked out well, didn’t it.

Brown sold our gold at a knock down price, costing the country billions of pounds.

PFI was used to build schools and hospitals, a burden round all our necks for at least generation.

This is the true legacy of modern Labour and don’t forget the role Milliband and Balls played.

I could go on but ill miss George Galloway on the telly.

Nana Smith

We can be heroes just for one day…

link to youtube.com

Jim Mitchell

Well done that woman!

Who’s seen the Yes and the Aye signs on the Ochils above Alva.

I wonder just how far these things can be seen

HandandShrimp

I would also like to re-iterate that people should not use pens. We do not want to give the establishment excuses to reject ballot papers. They want the thick broad pencil mark because it is easy to see. The observers there will see the boxes open and rejected papers will be scrutinised. If the boxes were opened and ballot papers removed and replaced before they got to the polling station (as can happen in dicatorships) then pen would make no difference.

Grouse Beater

Galloway unknowingly and comically making the case for independence crystal clear when he opines,

“We [Scots] are led by idiots.” [in Westminster]

Galoway doesn’t include himself in that category.

dramfineday

What courage, determination and defiance! Well done lass.

HandandShrimp

On the topic of the piece above, I think it is appalling that the BBC did not cover this as a human interest part of the debate. They really are shabby, corrupt and possibly incompetent.

WantonWampum.

Unashamedly, I wept – as I read of the Inspirational Courage and Determination of this wonderful young lady.

Contrast her act of Courage with that of Skeletor who had to take a 3-day break because he was egged.
“Perfidious Albumen”.

TTIP is not only supported by the ConDems, but backed by the sleekit SLAB scabs who must pay a severe price for their new DODGY DOSSIER on NHS Scotland.
Andy Burnham, MP, reveals a telling truth – in England.

Krash Gordon and Skeletor should be ashamed of their Treachery – when contrasted with this glorious girl.

Embra Rock – with “YES” – all the way through it.

Mark Coburn

Part of this campaign for me has been about ordinary people just doing extraordinary things.

Kudos.

Mark Coburn

HandandShrimp – Yes Scotland on their Facebook page have stated that it is fine to use a pen, as long as your intention is clear. Furthermore, the ballot papers will NOT be counted by machine.

Keef

I recall reading a tweet saying something like it must be pissing the OO off as they all can see a YES sign as they march. I’m sure this must have been the sign in question.

How very inspirational.

Well done young lady. The effort to do that must have been immense. A true sign of hope over fear.

Juteman

Gaun yirsel Tommy!

heedtracker

This is the last Sunday that we live in a country governed by another. It’s quite a thought but how many millions and millions of people around the world have had a last Sunday like this. It could be billions of people!

I’m having an amazing last Sunday in the UK:D

Valerie

I used to be quite apathetic about Brown, but now I feel unmitigated rage when I see him, ranting his lies, this man has no moral compass, he used the organ thing,but also used his dead daughter to say he was defending the NHS. This young woman is inspiring, and shows how lies are used to hurt, but her bravery and determination are awesome.

heedtracker

The ballot paper itself is bar coded so there’s that security or security hole. It’s going to be fine. Any fraud will be spotted.

HandandShrimp

Mark

Fair enough, Rejected papers go for evaluation and both sides have to agree that the intention is not clear.

I just press hard with the pencil 🙂

HandandShrimp

I agree about Brown, his pathetic attempt to bring in Kim Jong Un into the debate as a smear against Yes (no doubt just a joke) annoyed me. He is way more childish and much less statesmanlike than I had given him credit for.

Thomas Valentine

Gaun yersel kwinie.

Dave McEwan Hill

Andy Howie at 10.38

It’s on the front page of the Sunday Herald but covered up by that paper’s magnificent huge supplement.

Everybody must get a Sunday Herald today – even just to show your children and grand children. I’m getting half a dozen to send to relatives all over the world.

The dog’s are barking (it’s a bookie’s term – meaning they have found out there is a “job” on with some cuddy or other) that Yes is going to win and No have lost it. I would get your last minute bets on now. YES will be favourite by Thursday.

Back to the Sunday Herald – magnificent supplement; magnificent main paper. Every home in Scotland should have one. How about a rerun on Wednesday? I’d buy another ten for posterity.

Sunday Mail editorial does everything but say NO have lost it- you might as well vote YES (Choked on my porridge and nearly fell off my chair)
Sunday Sun first class and Aamer Anwar nails it perfectly. Nice piece from Andy Nichol

Findlay Farquaharson

The amount of respect i have for this girl is alot.

Derek M

wow incredible inspiring i hope this bonnie lassie gets her transplant and goes on to live a full and happy life as for big crash broon ,broon we have a set of handcuffs and a nice wee cell in the Bar-L waiting for you.

Claire

For those who asked about alternative broadcasting of the count on the night, referendum tv.net are planning to do just that, but they still need funds to make it as good a broadcast as possible. If you want an alternative to the Biased Broadcasting Corporation coverage please consider donating to them via their website.

This young woman is an inspiration. Gordon Brown’s lies have been some of the most sickening of the whole campaign, and that’s saying something. I hope she gets the transplant she needs to live a full and healthy life in an independent Scotland.

heedtracker

link to allafrica.com Biometric registration testing ended election fraud in Ghana. UK.gov dodge it and anyone can get a UK postal vote without giving a reason.

Grouse Beater

Valerie: I used to be quite apathetic about Brown

What I find odd is the way media and press who loathe him, that effectively drove him from office, now think he is loved by Scots, and indeed, praise his stance against democracy’s basic laws.

Gordon the Hapless – grousebeater.wordpress

caz-m

Inspirational.

We can also do our bit before Thursday. We can put up our own YES posters and stickers, in windows, on cars, at the side of roads, on bridges, in fields, on lamp posts.

Put them up to give undecided voters that bit of confidence that they are looking for to vote YES.

alistair

Coming through from Stirling to Glasgow this morning and the car convoy from Stirling was starting to build up. Looked fantastic. Hope someone gets a video of it. Its going from Stirling to Stratchlyde park and then meeting up with the PPC protest later (not quite sure how they’re joining up but hopefully we’ll descend on BBC at the end of it for 2pm, starting 12.30 from George Square).
Should be fun – see you there.

FairiefromEarth

Groundskeeper Willy has even came out for the yes side, he seems to belive we should free ourselfs from the stomping boot of imperilism. 😉

Solitaire

Can someone give a bit of advice on the election laws in regard to contesting a count or asking to see a particular voting slip?

**Note:
This is a question regarding voting laws and NOT an indication to do anything which my be considered as illegal.**

I’m assuming that cameras and recording equipment are not allowed in the voting areas.

But is it illegal to take a picture of your own ballot while you are in the booth?

Just thinking that all ballots have a unique sequential number on them, so if you took a picture (date/time/location stamped) with your mark in a box with the number visible you would have a record of your vote.

That gives you a something to compare against the ballot after it’s been counted. You can then check to see if your ballot was counted or discarded (or even altered!). That is if a recount is needed in your area and the result is either too close to call or the margin of the wining side was much larger than expected.

NODROG

WELL DONE TOMMY SHERIDAN YOU SAID EVERYTHING I WANTED TO HEAR TO ANDREW NEIL AND THE BBC TODAY. YOU ARE A TRUE SCOTTISH HERO – I APPLAUD YOU SIR. MANY THANKS.

fred blogger

different day, same old shite.
shame on you bbc and msm.
link to youtube.com

Robert Kerr

O/T Sorry.

Just back from a week in the Irish Republic and read online Herald that Iain Macwhirter shall vote Yes.

“But this isn’t an election; it is a referendum on the future of the country I live in, and I will be voting Yes.”

Well done that man!

EdinScot

Edinburgh and Scotland rocks thanks to this young woman. Superb! Really inspiring. Something is in the air alright.

Will be going out shortly to leaflet in Leith for YES campaign as i did yesterday. Its the best thing to do as im in control to turn off the propaganda in my living room and cut out the unionists hot air supply. Many others seem to be on the streets too and thats why i think we will win as we are not taking our feet off the pedal. The masses are getting our info and the response has been very good and friendly unlike how the msm are portraying it. Today will see me and another do a few tower blocks and we’re more than eager to do it as not doing anything doesnt seem right.

O/t, just saw Denis Canavan and Tommy Sheridan in sensational form respectively on sky and ebc smashing the unionist argument to smithereens. What passion they have for an independent Scotland WOW!

The difference between now and 1979 is the social media. Its killing off the unionists big time with their omissions and lies being exposed to the public. The Unionist media wish you only had them as a medium and to take your unionist medicine like the good little servants you are but this time its not working. The tv journos and presenters faces are collapsing live on air. The fear is in their eyes. Lets make sure we knock them out.

Dubbieside

Sorry to go O/T but this really needs to be shared.

Gordon Brown would prefer a UKIP/Tory coalition government to Scottish Independence.

link to en.ria.ru

Derick Tulloch

Immense respect for such integrity, such courage

Blown away

Clootie

link to aberdeencity.gov.uk

Castlegate Aberdeen

Clootie

let it update ~15secs when you click on the link – flash mob

The Man in the Jar

“Gordon is a moron!”

macart763m

@Clootie

🙂 🙂

Like it.

bookie from hell

Last SUNDAY before referendum,and Better Together put up George Galloway

who proceeds to say labour are finished in Scotland

walofs

James123

Check out Tommy Sheridan if you can on the iplayer, in brilliant form, “the BBC has been a disgrace”. Well said that man.

Truth

I’ve said it a few times in the last couple of years, but this young lady easily qualifies for the accolade of being one of Scotland’s heroes.

Thank you, and I wish you health and happiness.

Col

I personally think that George has fallen for a honey trap. I`m certain that the British State has something on him. The utter crap he is spewing just doesn`t seem to be George the maverick. Then there`s his bizarre behavior in the big brother house that time. Strange days, exciting times!

Big Jock

Did the prof just say that new registered voters were more likely to vote no. What a lot of nonsense!

Ok Scotland here it is Project Fear’s original fear that it was conceived in FUEL DEPIVATION. England has it’s own independence agenda energy independence their plan to build 50 nuclear power plants which would satisfy their total requirements and provide energy security.
It is estimated that in the next twenty years England will require 50% to 60% increase in energy supply due to their explosive population growth running at five times normal growth due to immigration. Paradoxically whilst Scotland has an abundance of energy sources England is in a state of fuel deprivation reliant on foreign countries for 50% of it’s gas via submarine pipelines from Norway, Holland, Belgium, and France all subsidised by massively expensive shipments of LPG from the middle east.
As England is bankrupt with a national debt of 1.3 trillion where welfare costs exceed tax receipts England is in no position to invest the billions required for a nuclear energy future. It is totally reliant on foreign investment to realise their goal.
Scottish oil and gas receipts account for 25% of the UKs corporate tax receipts.
This underpins the security and confidence investors would require to feel comfortable about supporting England’s nuclear energy future, for without Scotland it is dubious that they would invest.
That is why it is critical from England’s point of view that it controls Scotland’s energy policy.
The first plant is being built at Hinkley Point in Somerset by French company EDF for their investment in constructing and running the plant they have extracted an attractive outcome with George Osborn agreeing to pay twice the wholesale rate for thirty five years only problem is he won’t be paying it you will, and that’s only the first deal.
If Scotland remains in the union it will be subject to the soaring energy costs by being on the UK nation grid it won’t be long before they are deciding between being hungry or cold and then they will be both hungry and cold.
The ultimate oxymoron when you consider Scot’s live in one of the worlds most energy rich nations and should be enjoying using their own energy at fair commercial rates.
Instead of being subjected to a form of extortion through the national grid.
England’s survival is totally dependant on maintaining control over Scotland and realising it’s nuclear dream, any thing less will result in total breakdown of civil society due to unfulfilled population demands, fuel demands, infrastructure demands, monetary demands.
There you go Scotland what do you think I can see it and I am half a world away.

Robert Louis

Manandboy earlier today made a very good point above. I hope he and nobody else will mind too mcuh if I draw attention to it, and quote it in full.

Let’s focus on OUR winning POSITIVE message over the last few days;

4 precious days to go.

What to do in these few days ?

The NO Campaign want you to watch as much TV as possible

because that is where they are strongest.

So AVOID watching the Red Tories NO Campaign on TV.
.

And do not publicise what they say or do on the internet or social media.

Choose instead any way that promotes and spreads the

positive message of YES.

Ignore the polls.
.

Remember, NO are trying to dominate and control

what the electorate are thinking about during these 4 days

by flooding the media with their speakers

and pictures of their events and activities.

Anyone thinking about Yes on Thursday

will most likely vote Yes on Thursday.

And vice versa.
.

Fill your head with YES thoughts

then there will be no room for anything else.

We MUST stay positive at all times.

.
4 days to Independence, it’s amazing!

Let’s go get it!

Michael McCabe

@ Jim Thomson. Thanks for the link to the protest at PQ. I hope Thousands turn up. Vote Yes.

OneBadMouse

Just phoned my dad to tell him about this & he is very impressed. He had a liver transplant 14 years ago thanks to Alpha-1 & has been campaigning for Scottish independence for nearly 50 years.

(Alpha-1 can cause lung disease that requires a lung transplant but the liver is the key. My dad was lucky & only needed a liver transplant.)

Pam McMahon

Well done, bonnie lass. I would give you one of my own lungs, if it wasn’t already knackered. Still waiting to see if Edinburgh council will send somebody up to remove your heroic effort. My dad used to be in charge of that department, and I’m sure he would have found an emergency gully or two to empty first.

macart763m

Absolutely RL and couldn’t agree more. In these last four days lets focus on our own message.

Malcolm

I will never feel more proud, or more humble than I do now, having read of the efforts of this amazing lady. It really puts blowing a flute into perspective.

Les Wilson

Watching Politics Scotland, Galloway spouting usual pish, star was Tommy Sheridan who put A. Neill in his place in a big way, tore into the bias of the BBC. Neill tried but could not contain him.

Love him or hate him, Tommy is so committed to YES, and is saying the things that main politicians hold back from saying. Well done Tommy for putting them on the rack.

kirsten

The young lady is indeed brave. This is one of the most courageous acts of defiance against the NO campaign, I’ve seen.

She didn’t do this last night after the Orange Order march though, she did it before – which is even better!

reginald

Deep in the archives of Channel 4 is a series on body language.One of the episodes is devoted to the body language of politicians.You will see Tony Blair making a brilliant speech to a Labour Party conference.His Cabinet colleagues and the delegates are extatic.But there in the background is a very unhappy and distressed Gordon Brown.It is two minutes of one of the most bizarre sights you will ever see in politics.

Grouse Beater

Clootie: Castlegate Aberdeen

Needs to be filled to the gunnels, Clootie, to have real effect on watchers and waiverers.

Dcanmore

Well done that girl, brillant and very inspiring!

I think the whole idea to have Galloway and Sheridan on the same show is to beam them into English households to show how Scots and Scotland is ripping itself apart. It’s a ‘tut tut’ attitude to comfort the English in showing big bad tribal nationalism, cue the Sunday papers with their lies about Scotland and the independence movement. Galloway and Sheridan are both extreme people, the BBC know exactly what they are doing. When we win on the 18th the newspapers will have ‘Scottish Nationalism rips UK apart’.

They will try to unite the rUK together in a blame game to deflect the problems of Westminster and finger pointing towards no.10. For a short time at least they will try and paint a fake picture of a sorry Scotland consumed in flames.

Mike

Robert

If we don’t watch TV and read the news how can we come online to rubbish it and point out the errors?

Minty

What an amazing person you are. Just wonderful. Best wishes to you for a more hopeful future.

Billy Mac

Watched Galloway and Sheridan earlier.
What a difference, Galloway was the usual Bitter together doom and gloom while Tommy’s exuberance and excitement about an Independent Scotland was uplifting to watch.

Scotty Land

Passed the Ochils last night and between Alva and Tillicoultry there are two banners. On a precarious rockface there is an AYE and another less dangerous area a large YES. Well done to these brave people who climbed and placed the messages there. Lets hope they remain there as a sign of our feelings even after our Indy victory.

Les Wilson

Watchin Curtis now on Politics Scotland, the man is a slippery weasel.Still pushing YES a bit behind. Making excuses for when YES is in front.Another piece of work.

James Dow

Ok Scotland here it is Project Fear’s original fear that it was conceived in FUEL DEPRIVATION. England has it’s own independence agenda energy independence their plan to build 50 nuclear power plants which would satisfy their total requirements and provide energy security.
It is estimated that in the next twenty years England will require 50% to 60% increase in energy supply due to their explosive population growth running at five times normal growth due to immigration. Paradoxically whilst Scotland has an abundance of energy sources England is in a state of fuel deprivation reliant on foreign countries for 50% of it’s gas via submarine pipelines from Norway, Holland, Belgium, and France all subsidised by massively expensive shipments of LPG from the middle east.
As England is bankrupt with a national debt of 1.3 trillion where welfare costs exceed tax receipts England is in no position to invest the billions required for a nuclear energy future. It is totally reliant on foreign investment to realise their goal.
Scottish oil and gas receipts account for 25% of the UKs corporate tax receipts.
This underpins the security and confidence investors would require to feel comfortable about supporting England’s nuclear energy future, for without Scotland it is dubious that they would invest.
That is why it is critical from England’s point of view that it controls Scotland’s energy policy.
The first plant is being built at Hinkley Point in Somerset by French company EDF for their investment in constructing and running the plant they have extracted an attractive outcome with George Osborn agreeing to pay twice the wholesale rate for thirty five years only problem is he won’t be paying it you will, and that’s only the first deal.
If Scotland remains in the union it will be subject to the soaring energy costs by being on the UK nation grid it won’t be long before they are deciding between being hungry or cold and then they will be both hungry and cold.
The ultimate oxymoron when you consider Scot’s live in one of the worlds most energy rich nations and should be enjoying using their own energy at fair commercial rates.
Instead of being subjected to a form of extortion through the national grid.
England’s survival is totally dependant on maintaining control over Scotland to realise it’s nuclear dream, any thing less will threaten the breakdown of civil society due to unfulfilled population demands, fuel demands, infrastructure demands, monetary demands.
There you go Scotland what do you think? I can see it from here and I am half a world away.

Iain (orri) McCord

Whilst checking my Spam folder I found the email trying to fix the entry of the Vote No Borders song into the charts. This has reminded me of it because this massive is truly a Flower of Scotland.

As to the email it contains a couple of things that show how little it has to do with Scotland, or at least my understanding of it. For a start I really can’t remember anyone who lives in Scotland referring to Burns as “Robbie”. Nor, as far as I remember, did he write the tune to “Auld Lang Syne”. Even then the sentiment has nothing to do with any desire to stay together but rather, as most Scots of my age might remember, of staying in touch and on good terms. It might be worth noting that these days it’s place has been taken by Run Rig’s version of Loch Lomond including the mad mob the bridal party and Yo Ho, Yer Minging bit.

Indy_Scot

When I was younger I always wanted to do something or make something that would change the world. Then I got older and realised that it was probably a feeling that most children have when they are young, and that the chances of it happening had come and gone.

Come Thursday, I will be given a second chance.

Kid Spotlight

True Courage! I just hope some of her courage will rub off on those still dithering Scots before Thursday, and more importantly those cowed by Westminster into voting NO.

Dr Jim

Most of the YES signs in windows are only there from fear of windows being kicked in by the YES campaigners
Must be true coz the UKIP guy said it this morning
RIBS STILL HURTING….

Les Wilson

James Dow says:

Good posting James, I can only agree, but would add that on top of what you point out, there is another myriad of reasons they need Scotland. However, we really do not need them.

Graham

Rock on tommy stick to the bbc . Daily politics this morning must watch

CameronB Brodie

Move over folks, we’ve got a new team member. 🙂

I am grateful to all of them. Together they are a microcosm of what the entire no campaign has been all about: money; raw corporate power and a naked sense of absolute entitlement. So I will be voting yes for an independent Scotland on Thursday, with a confidence and certainty that, until last week, I would never have thought possible.

link to theguardian.com

Mike Dolling

Here in New Zealand, watched the Big, Big, Debate with new young voters, on YouTube and aware again that too often the Yes Campaign is put on the defence.

George Galloway, ranted that it was (correctly) a Labour party that created the NHS but then went on to say it was successful because there of the size of the UK and its 63 million population. Never or at least seldom in the many debates I have watched do the Yes counteracted with the examples of the small prosperous nations that also have health and pension schemes.

I just wish that they would ask their audiences, “Want good reasons for voting Yes?:
Norway; Switzerland; Sweden; New Zealand; Denmark; Finland; Netherlands; Luxembourg, Liechtenstein
And a seat at the United Nations as all of the above do.

Almost every indicator from the ‘Economist’, Mail Online (Apr 16th 2014), the UN Human Development Index, give these nations as the wealthiest per capita and happiest. Why does this hardly get a mention whilst currency seems to be a scare tactic every time. All nations have a currency – we should have challenged ‘No Thanks’ on other issues.

Still the bogeyman of ‘Nationalism‘ is pejoratively used to associate Yes with nationalists and a hint of fascism. The history of the ‘nationalist’ revolutions in Greece, Belgium and throughout Europe (mainly 1848) against the might of the Russian, Ottoman, Austro-Hungarian and British Empires is forgotten. Nationalist revolutions throughout Europe were for freedom not imperialistic conquest.
Small nations – don’t start wars – imperialist empires start wars.

Also the present Governments in New Zealand is the New Zealand National party (not one I support here) and in Australia the National Party of Australia is in coalition with the Liberal Party of Australia in government. No one would call them fascist or Nazis, except perhaps George Galloway, although he doesn’t seem to have minded the African National Congress (ANC), despite its name.

Surely those supporters of the Union who claim to be ‘Socialist’ (George Galloway, Ian Davidson etc., etc.) should be challenge to as to what brand of ‘Socialism’ they aspire. The ‘Socialism’ of Joseph Stalin, Pol Pot, Moa Ze Dong and other tyrants who claimed to be socialists. (The first two were imperialistic in denying sovereignty to surrounding smaller nations.)

I wonder if Mr Galloway should be asked, “Were the small nations right or wrong gaining sovereignty from the centralised despots of the USSR or were they ‘Better Together’?”

When (mostly Labour politicians) cry, I hate Nationalism.” – are they insinuating that all the smaller (now mostly prosperous) nations should have remained under imperialistic empire control?

I and many that I have talked with feel, that the economic debate has been allows to much fear tactics by Better Together and more basic ideas such as; It is ‘normal’ for any group of people to want ‘ownership’ of their own lives, their own language and culture and to share this happily with any who wish to share, whether it be neighbours next door or in a neighbouring country and to make the important decisions concerning foreign policy and how they wish their government to act, themselves.

Lastly – it does seem as that BT get away with unproven claims and statements, such as:
Scotland ‘punches above its weight’ being part of the UK.
The UK is the most successful partnership that the world has ever seen.
We have the best of both worlds being in the Union.

Also one young audience member stated “England’ gives us more money, than we put in.” and unfortunately too many believe this as if Scots were subsidy junkies, which if it was true they should be challenged on not being ashamed of this.

Another brought up the matter of high tax in Norway (the price of beer argument). The fact that has been used so often seems to indicate that the fact that it‘s the quality of life one enjoys after taxation and what benefits their taxes can bring and maybe apart from beer other things may be cheaper elsewhere.

David Cameron and the Westminster parties have travelled the world asking political leaders to back a no vote – I wonder why they didn’t ask John Key, (Prime Minister of New Zealand) maybe because it would be hard for him stating a small country couldn’t be successfully independent.

Hoping for a resounding YES on Thursday.

Regards,

Mike Dolling

PS Labour party are promising win in next general Election – remind voters that since their foundation they have on governed 32 years (not counting war coalitions)and so what ever happens the Tories will be in most of the time.

Les Wilson

In ref to this courageous lady, on a humanitarian view of such inspiration, could we all crowd fund her treatment, or help her in some way.? I think most people would help if that would help her life chances, mark me down anyway.

Helena Brown

Robert Louis, Better Together/No Thanks what ever are not trying to convert us, they are trying so hard to retain their own support.

muttley79

There is an event in Edinburgh tomorrow, Tom Nairn is promoting his new book. Isobel Lindsay and Tariz Ali are down as speakers. Should be interesting.

link to eventbrite.co.uk

muttley79

That should be Tariq Ali!

Forbes

What a wonderful young woman.
She is an inspiration to the nation.
When the No campaigners say how will you get by on your own, even if you keep all the money you lose to Westminster, I would say how could this young women, in that state of Heath, with oxygen tanks strapped to her back, scale Edinburgh Castle with a banner in hand
She did because she felt that she had to.
All that pain and strain was worth it in order to save the NHS, and to place social justice ahead of fat cat profits.

Is this Gordon Brown who sold off the country’s Gold reserves at
a very low price, just a few months before Gold values doubled?
Is this the worker’s representative who abolished the 10% tax band for the low paid? Is this the man you signed up to an illegal war in Iraq, to recover weapons of mass destruction, that didn’t exist. Is the same man who was prime minister when the Bank’s Casino Banking crashed our economy?
He has been at the wheel when all these things hit the wall.
He is now outraged that Scotland wants Independence, and threaten to get back into the Driver’s seat????
Please Mr Brown, go enjoy the very large pension that your awarded yourself and keep your advice to yourself.

Mealer

Gordon Brown
What a clown,
He’ll not keep my country down.

Lesley-Anne

I haven’t read any posts yet but just a wee heads up to those of us who can’t make it to Pacific Quay today that there is a Livestream event from there and it will start in around 50 minutes time. 😛

link to new.livestream.com

flux_capacitor

A truly inspirational act from that young woman.

You can watch the Aberdeen flashmob developing here

link to aberdeencity.gov.uk

Calgacus MacAndrews

After all the wonderful peaceful gatherings across the country yesterday, Edinburgh are having their one today in the meadows from 2-6pm, food, drink, music and talks.

Please take friends and undecideds and go along.

I am told there has been a stage set up at the top of Meadows Walk.

Donald MacKenzie

Kevin McKenna in The Observer delivers an explosive critique on all that has been nasty and dirty in the No campaign and presents an emotionally charged powerhouse of an argument as to why ‘Yes’ is the right answer.

west_lothian_questioner

Well done that brave young lass. What an inspiration!! Eyes streaming here…

gillie

Such bravery makes us all look weak and cowardly, and makes Gordon Brown in particular look like scrum.

Jim McIntosh

Just read Kevin McKenna’s piece in the Gruan, very inspiring. Reading the comments, part of one from someone in Canada stuck out.

“Leaving does not diminish the Union but strengths it. Better a Union of friends who are free than conscripts to Westminster’s tune.”

Very true, after a YES vote on Thursday we’ll all still have friends in England, Wales and NI.

Lesley-Anne

I’m so amazed at that young woman’s achievement. She deserves world wide recognition for what she has achieved DESPITE her medical condition. I’m truly watering up in my eyes and truly inspired! 😛

O/T the livestream event has started. He is actually now with the marchers making their way to Pacific Quay. 😛

link to new.livestream.com

gerry parker

@ Mealer, Can’t wait to chant that!

🙂

JBS

Interesting blog piece re: Deutsche Bank on the Ekklesia website:

link to ekklesia.co.uk

Onwards

Inspirational stuff.

Gordon Browns lies about organ transplants has been one of the most disgusting elements of the entire NO campaign.

Along with using dead soldiers..
Scottish soldiers gave their lives for freedom and democracy.
Including the right for their descendants to decide their own future.

fred blogger

Aberdeen yes flash mob.
link to youtube.com

Kevin Evans

Has anyone seen this rubbish?

link to express.co.uk

Valerie

Live stream from Pacific Quay amazing!!!!

BrianW

Inspiring..

Truly inspiring..

Chance of a Yes vote 100%. Chance of good old Gordy paying a blind bit of difference to that message.. 0.0001%

(unless it comes with an £8,000 readers fee, overnight accommodation and first class travel to the reading – then you’ve got his attention)

paul gerard mccormack

Wow! Fantastic! Goosebumps!

Scotty Land

YES well done to the brave young woman who climbed Edinburgh Castle to put her sign up while very ill. Also to the climbers in the Ochils, Galloway Hills The Islands and all who put YES signage on precarious places. Risking life and limb to postion signage on areas most would be scared to climb never mind trying to place their messages there. Take care and keep up the good work. These signs should be left up after Independence to show the true commitment and bravery some have shown to the cause.

P.R.D.

What is it with Jim Murphy and that rust coloured liquid gas, is the alternate bottle and can routine a working class empathy prop or is he really an undercover IB salesman?

Switch off the mind control of the BBC and tune in to Independence.

Marty

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.”

And yes, Yes got the all important url of the day!

18September2014.com

YESGUY

How can we lose with people like this.

This is not the first time i have been moved by events in Scotland in this referendum period. But moved again i am.

On days like this you see something that inspires you and you feel very proud to be Scottish.

Well done lass.

Staggering achievement and an inspiration to all.

heedtracker

I dont know whether to laugh or cry that I bought into the great Guardian fraud for 30 years. Yesterday Graun marched with the Orange Order, the Guardian and the Orange Order for christ sake. So today

link to theguardian.com

“Scottish referendum: Salmond invites rivals to join ‘Team Scotland’
First minister accused of ‘premature victory lap’ after inviting Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling to negotiate secession”

and across the page

link to theguardian.com

‘We will win.’ Alistair Darling claims victory is in sight for no vote
‘Be in no doubt,’ says Better Together chief as Opinium poll for the Observer shows no vote on 53% to 47% for yes

All Graun’s done throughout their relentless attack on the democratic future of Scotland is show the world how English press/media is as close to neo fascism as its possible to get in peace time.

Vestas

I think the penny has finally dropped in Aistair Darling’s mind. He now realises that regardless of the result half of Scotland will despise him for the rest of his life.

Hope the ermine is worth it Alistair. You’ll fit right in with the rest of the ermine vermin.

Marty

Sorry, forgot the prefix.

http://18September2014.com

Oneironaut

Wow… I really can’t think of any words sufficient to describe this.
Suffice to say, that girl is now my new hero!

Really hope she gets that transplant she needs and goes on to do great things in an independent Scotland 🙂
Whoever you are, if you’re reading this, you just restored a great deal of my ailing faith in humanity!

@Ian Brotherhood
Signed that petition too. Thanks for posting it up 🙂

Would love to see “Wings TV” as the new mainstream broadcaster, but I realise that the Rev might need a long rest after all this craziness, hehe 😀

BornOptimist

I hope this story appeared on the BBC news under an accurate heading. It left me with tears in my eyes and my heart thumping. I even had a passing thought I would be ashamed to be a Scot if the No vote won until I thought of the alternatives and concluded it is better to be a citizen of a nation without a state, than a subject of a state with moral principles readily distorted by cash.

Conan_the_Librarian

O brave new world, that has such people in it.

Famous15

Gordon Brownlost the last bit of respect with his immature insulting of the First Minister and the North Korean jibe.

Brown like Darling were always into socialism for what they could get out…ie not socialists not even labour!

Lesley-Anne

Oops!

Looks like no one from BBC is prepared to come out of their wee glass cube and answer questions. Apparently if anyone wants answers they have to go back between office hours 9 – 5! Have you ever heard such utter garbage? 😛

heedtracker

link to theguardian.com

How right wing vote NO or else propaganda works. Its hardly worth mentioning what the OO have done to Scotland, if you actually live here. But Libby Carrell and co huggin and a kissin them is all kinds of grotesque.

Arel

As a politician Gordon Brown is nothing but a gutless coward.
Alex Salmond stands up in front of the world’s media to answer question after question.
Brown attends carefully orchestrated events attended by Labour lackies and cheer leaders with not one searching or difficult question asked.

But even more disgusting is that he uses these events to spread fear and lies to people like this young lady and OAP’s but never has the guts to attend interviews on TV to be questioned about these ridiculous claims.

A truly dishonourable individual. Hope we are well shot of him after Thursday

K1

Lot of cars en route to bbc, just over the squinty now, waiting to turn into car park…looking like It’s gonna be a big turnout!

K1

Incredible at BBC…just arrived, you should hear the chanting…from the car park, just walking over now…

Socrates MacSporran

I was at one of the top club rugby games in Scotland on Saturday – as ever, I had my Yes badge on my lapel. Usual banter with the regulars, middle-class, generally Tory voting, my erstwhile team-mates, a product of the old Scottish Senior Secondary schools (for the youngsters, Scotland’s equivalent of Grammar Schools).

The banter I can handle, but I had to laugh at one of my contemporaries. He was the only one wearing a No Thanks badge. The youngest son of a long-established local family firm – he ruined that firm in the three years he had in-charge after his more-gifted elder brother died.

He was going-on about the Yes camp being subsidy junkies and voting thus to safeguard our benefits culture. I had to laugh.

I was then speaking to one of the home club’s top officials, the type of small-town chartered accountant operating across Scotland. He tells me, “No will win – they have the silent majority”.

I asked him what gave him that impression.

“Because everyone I speak to tells me this; they will not openly commit, but, they will vote No”.

So, on the basis of speaking to guys at the golf club, the rugby club and in some of the posher hotel bars in town – he knows the silent majority will vote No.

I think both these guys will get a shock on Friday morning.

They don’t go into the working-class pubs, where the excitement and desire for a Yes vote is palpable.

We will win this.

Edward

Anyone in Glasgow should get over to Pacific Quay
large protest outside the BBC
link to new.livestream.com

Truth

OT Sorry

Get on here link to new.livestream.com

2371 others are watching as I type.

fred blogger

a message from johnny void.
link to johnnyvoid.wordpress.com

Truth

Make that 3000 people watching!

K1

Atmosphere is brilliant!

call me dave

That’s a great turn out at PQ. Also now over 3000 watching.

Stunning!

MoJo

Song from PQ demo- being viewed by 3000+ from all over the world from Japan to New York ….The times they are a changing….!

Castle Rock

Now over 3500 watching now plus the 1000’s that are there

Shelagh

What an inspirational young lady. This story should be on the front of all Scottish newspapers.

As for Gordon Brown, he should hang his head in shame.

Lesley-Anne

I’m thinking a lot of high up folks are finally seeing the light folks. This has just been tweeted by the Sunday Herald. 😛

The big guns of the British state come out for Yes – former ambassador and top naval intelligence officer both back independence #indyref

Edward

Bandwidth for the live stream is creaking due to number of viewers (which is why its is breaking up)

Indy_Scot

I just wish everyone in Scotland could see the people in Glasgow right now.

heedtracker

Sunday Times has lost the plot too, Great Scots vote No, the dead ones with their descends explaining how Robert the Bruce votes NO, Alexander Flemming votes NO and it goes. Also they have a non relative architect who likes him stating Charles Rennie MacinTosh votes NO Loggie Baird son immigrated to Canada say his dad’s votes NO, this is newspaper for grown ups too.

ST also have Guardianesque sneaky creepy thing about Rockall with headline “Mineral rich seabed around Rockall, annexed by Britain could help fund independence” writes Jason Allardyce. So you don’t need anymore of this liggers vote NO stuff to see what’s maybe coming our way via teamGB.

Les Wilson

MoJo says:

Yes it is brilliant, support from all over the world WOW!

Note – professor Robertson has been asked to go into the BBC office to have a discussion on TV with a Chinese Prof. Smells a set up to me, but he is aware of that possibility.

John

What an inspiration! I have tears in my eyes.

Is the YES sign still there?

Lesley-Anne

I don’t think it was a Chinese professor Les it was Chinese TV and to debate with a professor somebody or other.

Lesley-Anne

Oh Oh! Looks like the polis have an eye in the sky watching over the protest now as well. 😛

call me dave

Andrew Marr interviews AS & AD starts 20minutes in.

(paper review was earlier if you want it) was good.

link to bbc.co.uk

Rory

What an absolute Heroine.

This could not be more inspriring.

People are being inspired to act, and in turn Inspiring more. It such a beautiful, brave moment in history to bare witness too.

Thank you

martincoull

Sky News just did a short piece on the BBC Bias demo…

Betty Boop

Close on 4000 watching livestream at BBC protest at Pacific Quay. Fantastic. Just look at the talent and the passion.

Edward

Livestream just passed the 4000 mark , currently at 4046

Castle Rock

Now over 4000 watching but the BBC will report it as 4 with a couple of people outside

Jim

To show her belief in self determination this young Lady climbed the face of Edinburgh Castle despite suffering a debilitating disease, all we have to do is put an check in the YES box. What an inspiration this girl is.

Les Wilson

I remember American Nat Silver who is apparently famous for predicting elections, that a YES vote was inconceivable.

He said if he was wrong he would eat his hat, or it may have been his underpants!, can’t quite remember which, but I hope it was his underpants!
Will it be done live I ask???

call me dave

Storming the Scottish Bastille to let the truth out.

Well ‘storming’ using singing and waving flags the democratic way.

History! 🙂

heedtracker

Sunday Times have BetterTogether “footsoldier” explaining that the YES lead poll last week wasn’t unexpected and so they decided to “ramp up our campaign on the economic of independence, it’s the economy stupid” etc and how that UKOK ramping going?

Same soldier “dismayed” at Darth Vader meeting the 100 labour liggers at Glasgow Central and “dismayed” at Yes claims Saltire as it’s own. Next week looks like it’s NOT the economy stupid, it’s UKOK pride of being a Scot but British, which sounds lovely.

Same activist says “Looking back, it’s not been a well-run campaign by BT and the well paid directors are to blame.” However they have a new “operation planned” code named The Get Out The Vote operation and they are still confident too.

Les Wilson

Looks like live PQ has crashed or been doctored by something BBC or MI5 have.

Lesley-Anne

Lesley is live now at BBC protest!

Truth

The girl in this article is speaking at the BBC protest now!

Get in there.

link to new.livestream.com

Steven Duff

Wow! The lass is an absolute class act.

Kenny

I am beginning to believe that all the media disinformation is actually an attempt to cause a rift in Scottish society, so there will be no conciliation and consensus after the results come in. But there would only be a need for this….. if the polls are showing someone that the result is a comfortable YES… Will be interesting to find out later on if the London establishment has been getting extra intelligence and exactly when they got it… In the meantime, keep calm and vote YES!

Auld Rock

On Nat Silver, I hope it’s his underpants and that there is a great big ‘SKID MARK’ on them, I’d even pay to see that on TV, LOL.

YFIS

Auld Rock

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