The dream shall never die : 100 days that changed Scotland forever / Alex Salmond

This is the SNP’s Alex Salmond’s diary of the last hundred days of the Scottish referendum campaign last year. He claims, “Where we do have tremendous support is in the breadth of the business community. … Our list of business supporters, led by Brian Souter, Jim McColl and George Matthewson, is impressive.” Souter is the homophobic boss of a private bus company. A month after he gave the SNP £500,000, the SNP dropped its commitment to re-regulate the bus network. McColl is so committed to Scotland that he is a tax exile in Monaco. Matthewson backed RBS’s disastrous 2007 takeover of sub-prime–riddled Dutch bank ABN Amro, which killed off RBS. The SNP worked with the Tories at Holyrood for four whole years, relying on them to pass all its annual budgets. The Labour Party worked with the Tories for just a hundred days in the Better Together campaign. Salmond tactfully never mentions the first fact, but never fails to mention the second. Salmond claims, “Labour’s mantra is that an S