Alex is no Bruce
This follows the last attempt to gain support for his failing campaign with the anniversary celebration of the Battle of Bannockburn, an attempt which failed to materialise quite spectacularly. Rational thinking people are not fooled by such nonsense.
Robert the Bruce is an iconic and important figure in Scottish history. In a play on the words of an American politician responding to an attempt in a debate by an opponent to compare himself favourably to Jack Kennedy, “Alex Salmond, you are no Robert the Bruce.”
Raymond Paul
Braid Farm Road
Edinburgh
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Hide AdAlex Salmond should think better of himself – and us – than to wave the Declaration of Arbroath. It was a begging letter to the Pope, asking to be taken seriously and to be protected from the big, scary English next door.
Any document containing the words “our poor little Scotland” (in exili degentes Scocia) is to be deprecated and not given house room.
Scotland should vote Yes because we are a proud, confident, self-determining nation today, not a rabbit scared in the headlights 700 year ago.
(Dr) Bruce Durie
Wemyss Buildings
Kirkcaldy, Fife