SNP’s Westminster chief banishes all mention of Scottish independence from his own campaign leaflet
THE SNP’s Westminster chief has banished all mention of Scottish independence from his own campaign leaflet.
Angus Robertson - who is battling the Tories to hold onto his Moray seat - has produced a four-page detailed handout to put through doors.
Despite covering a host of local issues and boasting of his record at Westminster, it doesn’t once talk about independence or discuss a second referendum.
But it does mention the Tories a staggering thirteen times.
Last night a spokesman for the SNP said independence wasn’t the “core message” of the election.
But the Tory candidate battling to win the seat in North East Scotland said scores of voters were turning blue after becoming sick of the Nationalists banging on about independence.
He was criticised by local farmer’s son Douglas Ross, 34, – who is neck and neck in the polls against the SNP’s deputy leader.
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He said: “He is clearly picking up the same as I am on the doorstep - that people don’t want a second independence referendum - because he is avoiding any mention of it and his four page leaflet doesn’t mention the word independence once.
“For the Deputy Leader of the Scottish Nationalist Party that is extremely telling.
"He knows that 58 per cent of people in Moray voted No to independence and he is trying to do as much as he can not to mention it.”
And he predicted the demise of the “Shy Tory” phenomenon north of the border saying there were now virtually no “no go areas” for campaigners.
He added: “People are a lot more upfront since 2015 about saying they’re not voting SNP and are switching directly to us.
“Opinion polls suggest a lot of people are supporting us so when Nicola Sturgeon is shouting down Tories she is actually shouting down a significant number of people in Scotland who are looking to the Conservatives to challenge the SNP.
“In an area like Moray which was 49.9 percent for Brexit, they don’t like the SNP’s message of taking us out of Westminster only to throw us back under the control of the EU.
“And the 50.1 per cent that voted Remain don’t like Nicola Sturgeon taking their vote as being one for a second independence referendum.”