AN
award-winning Scottish author and screenwriter has defected from the Yes
campaign to Better Together, blaming the nationalists’ “Trotskyist” tactics.
Ewan
Morrison, who won the Scottish Book of the Year Fiction Prize in 2013 for his
novel ‘Close Your Eyes’, joined the Yes camp four months ago, but recently
changed his mind after being “berated for not having decided sooner or for
having questioned Yes at all”.
Morrison
argues on the ‘Wake Up Scotland’ blog that there is “zero debate” in the Yes
camp.
The
writer claims the “Yes camp had turned itself into a recruitment machine which
had to silence dissent and differences between the many clashing interest
groups under its banner”.
Morrison,
from Caithness, writes that the one-word promise of “Yes” is comparable to the
Trotskyist promise of “revolution”.
He
wrote: “I noticed that whenever someone raised a pragmatic question about
governance, economics or future projections for oil revenue... they were
quickly silenced.”
Such
questions, he said, were dealt with by comments such as: “We’ll sort that out
after the referendum - this is not the place or time for those kinds of
questions.”
He
added: “Many people are voting Yes just to express their frustration at not
being able to engage with politics as it is.
“They’re
voting Yes because they want to be heard for the first time. Once the
recruitment machine has served its purpose it will collapse and the repressed
questions will return with a vengeance.”
He
added: “After a Yes vote the fight for control of Scotland will begin.
“That
unity that seemed like a dream will be shattered into the different groups who
agreed to silence themselves to achieve an illusion of impossible unity.”
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