16 May 2014
The pro-Union campaign has been criticised for not doing enough to seduce Scotland into solidarity. But perhaps that’s OK, argues Ed Smith in this week’s New Statesman.
Watching the independence debate play out he is reminded of a female friend who once came across a scrawled list of “reasons to leave or not leave my girlfriend”. “As she was the girlfriend in question, it did not make for comfortable reading.”
As we’re not the ones deciding whether to stay or to go, “might not protestations of devotion and affection prove counterproductive?” argues Smith. “After all, since when has ‘Please don’t go!’ worked as a strategy for wooing back a disenchanted partner?”
