On The Scotsman iPad app: Salmond aims to be at one with the electorate on both sides of the border

Allan Massie examines Alex Salmond’s moves to court the English electorate and the argument that both Scotland and its neighbour would be better off as separate entities.
By The Newsroom
Published 25th Jan 2012, 12:26 BST

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From the article: “It might appear that Salmond’s wooing is a waste of time. The result of his referendum will be decided by Scottish votes, not English ones. Yet appeasing the English is not a pointless exercise – it is in Salmond’s interests that the English should be relaxed about the prospects of Scottish independence, just as it is in his interest that Scots who have their doubts about it should believe that the “social union” will continue unimpaired. His intention is to spike Unionist guns.”

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