To be, or not to be an independent country!
Photo was taken by Jean High
I
t’s a known fact that Scotland’s fate
will be decided in September when we
are all going to vote for or against
Scotland’s independence. This is a
common topic in everyday news, in every
political speech, in adverts and this is an
issue which we care about – ESOL
students, too. So we decided to invite
Graeme Day to talk about the “Yes”
campaign.
While we were waiting for our tutor to
arrive with the invited speaker, everybody
started talking about Scotland and Great
Britain, despite a long day in college and
tiredness. Probably, we talked about
everything we knew about this powerful
and truly great country.
Graeme Day is a
member of Scottish
National Party for the
Angus South area. He
was elected in May
2011.
Graeme was very glad to be invited to
have a chance to convince and inspire us
to vote “Yes”. Graeme can think of many,
many advantages of independence and he
can’t think of a single disadvantage.
He told us that everybody in the last 30
years in Scotland had paid more to the UK
than had had back.
“The first minister once said
that when we discovered oil in
Scotland it was like winning the
lottery and giving the money
away to our neighbours and
saying: ‘Please, give us pocket
money to live on!’ That’s what it
feels like.”
Then Graeme added that it wasn’t an antiEnglish thing at all. He thinks we will be
better as an independent neighbour
country with England then as the union,