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Salmond must open his ears to strike right note with voters



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Published Date: 27 October 2007
By JOYCE MCMILLAN
IF YOU want a snapshot of the overwhelming importance of image and mood music in contemporary politics, look at yesterday's YouGov poll of voting intentions across the UK.
On one hand, it places David Cameron's Conservatives at their highest point in the UK polls for 15 years, with a colossal 41 per cent of the potential vote. Yet on the other hand, it shows a background of stagnant support for the Conservative Party i...



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Sierra Foothills Scot,

27/10/2007 02:33:34

"...something else again to write to all signatory nations of the Non-Proliferation Treaty: in the kind of mild breach of diplomatic protocol which, trivial in itself, nonetheless leaves Mr Salmond wide open to attack for making rash and ill-judged anti-Westminster alliances, as we have seen this week."

In what way does seeking observer status at the UN represent an "anti-Westminster alliance"?

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Dr. James Wilkie,

27/10/2007 14:45:57

#1. Quite. As the base for the entire UK nuclear weapons force Scotland is quite clearly an acutely interested party on the issue of nuclear nonproliferation. Joyce McMillan obviously does not know what diplomatic protocol is. The SNP has not breached it in any way, mildly or otherwise. It is fully entitled to submit an application for observer status at the talks, like all other governments and NGOs. Whether that will succeed is another matter, for there will doubtless be furious backstairs diplomacy on the part of the Foreign Office to prevent it. The failing would be never to have attempted it.


 

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