Salmond "We can take Scotland in two weeks"

[TestMangler]

Revenge is a dish best served cold.

I think you're confusing that with salad.

Can you do people in the 'yes' camp a favour and shut the fuck up ?

[scooterscot]

I think you're confusing that with salad.

Can you do people in the 'yes' camp a favour and shut the fuck up ?

They may take our lives but they may never take our freedom!!!

[minestrone]

I think you're confusing that with salad.

Can you do people in the 'yes' camp a favour and shut the fuck up ?

As I have been saying there is an ugly nationalism to all of this.

I wonder what hatred you keep hidden for the campaign.

[TestMangler]

As I have been saying there is an ugly nationalism to all of this.

I wonder what hatred you keep hidden for the campaign.

Can you not go back to pretending to be Oirish ?

**** me, it's 1-1 in Germany.....

[Troll]

As I have been saying there is an ugly nationalism to all of this.

I wonder what hatred you keep hidden for the campaign.

Like this?

An anti-English racist group linked to Scotland’s Yes campaign is behind some of the organised intimidation which drove a prominent No supporter off the streets.

Siol nan Gaidheal, or “Seed of the Gaels,” coordinated abuse and attacks during at least four street-corner meetings held by Jim Murphy, Labour’s former Scottish secretary, immediately before the growing threats forced him to suspend the events.

The group describes itself as an “ultra-nationalist organisation” and attacks English people in Scotland as “white settlers” imposing the “Lebensraum of rapacious Anglo-Saxonry” on “colonised” Scots. It says that “Scottish ethnicity” should “form the basis for Scottish citizenship”.

The Telegraph has established that Siol nan Gaidheal has links to the Yes campaign. It provided stewarding and first aid at the last major Yes independence march and rally last year, according to its website.

Bruce Ogilvie, one of Siol nan Gaidheal’s leading activists, stated in online postings last week that “we have been following Murphy” for “in-your-face confrontations”, adding: “They hurt us, we hurt them. This is turning bad. We have had Yes supporters’ cars and property damaged. The gloves are now off. We will fight fire with fire.”

Wearing an SnG top, he was filmed at Mr Murphy’s meeting on August 27 in Montrose shouting abuse at the politician and members of the audience, one of whom he called a “conceited Tory cow”.

Mr Ogilvie, a self-confessed racist, is the former leader of the now-defunct “Settler Watch” group which attacked English-owned property in Scotland and made death threats to English residents in the 1990s.

Siol nan Gaidheal was officially expelled from the Scottish National Party in 1982, and described as “proto-fascist” by the party’s then leader, Gordon Wilson.

However, Mr Ogilvie appears to have been involved in the SNP until much later. He was active in its Bannockburn branch in 2005 and was pictured with Alex Salmond, the First Minister, and local SNP election candidates in 2009.

Mr Murphy said that his speaking tour, involving impromptu open-air meetings in 100 Scottish towns and cities, had suffered no major difficulties until the victory by Alistair Darling, leader of the Better Together campaign, over Mr Salmond in the first televised debate last month.

After that, many of his meetings were disrupted by abusive mobs, often waving Yes placards, trying to shout him down and intimidate his supporters. Typical chants included: “Go back to London, go back to your nest of paedophiles.”

Yes campaigners have attempted to snatch Mr Murphy’s microphone and abused English people at his meetings. Mr Murphy, a Scotsman, has also been accused of being “English” and a “traitor”. Describing Mr Murphy’s meeting in Banchory on August 26, Mr Ogilvie wrote: “I like the aggressiveness because I can get aggressive back.” On August 27, Mr Ogilvie said on Facebook that his group had “nailed Murphy” in Stonehaven and Montrose.

On the same day, he orchestrated intimidation of Mr Murphy in Dundee, telling members of his group: “Jim Murphy will be in the centre of Dundee within the hour. Get there Yessers and get him telt [told.]” Footage of the meeting shows Mr Murphy surrounded by a shouting crowd of Yes activists attempting to drown out his speech.

Responding to criticism, Mr Ogilvie compared the Labour politician to a Nazi collaborator, saying: “If these quislings come to my area, I’m not going to give them an easy time … I was sending a message out to my group telling them where Murphy was going next.”

He said that the group would heckle Mr Murphy “wherever he goes”.

Mr Ogilvie then circulated the times of Mr Murphy’s events in Fife the following day, August 28, when the intimidation culminated in the politician being attacked by eggs in Kirkcaldy and temporarily abandoning his tour.

Official Yes Scotland social media accounts have also circulated the times of the events. Writing on the Yes Kirkcaldy Facebook page, Ken Caldwell, the campaign’s central Fife organiser, advertised the time of Mr Murphy’s talk in the town and said: “Let’s give a warm YES welcome.”

Similar messages have appeared on local Yes Scotland media accounts in other places where there has been trouble. Siol nan Gaidheal provided stewarding and first aid at the Yes independence march and rally in Edinburgh on September 21 last year. The event, addressed by Mr Salmond, was organised by the Scottish Independence Convention, a key part of the Yes campaign and many of whose senior officers are SNP activists.

The convention’s vice-convener, Kevin Williamson, was pictured with Mr Salmond at the launch of the Yes campaign. Mr Williamson has spoken at Siol nan Gaidheal events, is “friends” with the group on his Facebook page and appears to post regularly on the SnG forum, most recently in July.

In 2012, Mr Williamson said that an independent Scotland should conduct a “social audit” of public employees to find out their “demographic” and “who they speak for”.

Other disruption has been organised by far-Left groups allied to Yes Scotland. Videos showing disruption at many of Mr Murphy’s meetings in central Scotland appear on the same account run by a far-Left organiser for the Yes campaign in Glasgow.

Mr Murphy said: “What we have discovered is that there is a dark corner in Scotland in which lurks a kind of noisy, intolerant nationalism that has now been brought to life and coordinated in Facebook postings and elsewhere through Yes Scotland.”

Siol nan Gaidheal says that “a colonial mindset has permeated every stratum of our society” and that “Scots who act as colonial minions and administrators are traitors, as are those who participate in an English parliament”.

It also calls for the “liberation” of Berwick-upon-Tweed, the border town which was part of Scotland for periods in the Middle Ages but has been in England since 1482.

Mr Ogilvie has written that anyone who votes No this month is “not Scottish”. Another of his social media pages pays apparent tribute to Andrew McIntosh, a former member of the Scottish National Liberation Army who served a 12-year prison sentence for a letter-bomb campaign against English targets.

Since the beginning of the referendum campaign, opponents of independence have been routinely subject to online attacks. The Harry Potter author, JK Rowling, was abused as a “Union cow bag” and a “whore” after coming out for the No campaign. Sir Chris Hoy, the Olympic cyclist, was called a “bigot” and anti-Scottish. Harassment is now increasingly physical.

Mr Murphy is not the only prominent No campaigner to suffer intimidation. In July, Michael McMahon, Labour MSP for Uddingston and Bellshill, found a plank with a protruding nail and screw under the tyre of his car, which had a No sticker in the window. “While I can’t prove that it is Yes supporters who are responsible, it takes place in the context of threatening remarks made about me on Facebook,” he said.

“I can’t assume it’s unconnected. I find it concerning. My car could have swerved and caused an accident.” He has reported the incident to the police. Last month, he said, he and other No campaigners were back in the police station after they were “accosted” by a “Yes mob” in Holytown.

Michael McCann, Labour MP for East Kilbride, said that he and his supporters were being routinely followed around and videoed by members of the Yes campaign.

He said that in his 32-year career as a politician and trade union official, he had never seen such levels of intimidation.

[SueEllen]

I wish the vote was tomorrow, they voted "Yes" and ****ed off.

I suppose the shock would be the gradual withdrawal of the rUK resources over the forthcoming 5-10 years and the realisation that certain countries in the EU are purposely making it difficult for Scotland to enter due the separatist regions within their own borders.

[minestrone]

I wish the vote was tomorrow, they voted "Yes" and ****ed off.

I suppose the shock would be the gradual withdrawal of the rUK resources over the forthcoming 5-10 years and the realisation that certain countries in the EU are purposely making it difficult for Scotland to enter due the separatist regions within their own borders.

Maybe you and rUK can synchronize periods.

[SueEllen]

Maybe you and rUK can synchronize periods.

No this is me normal.

[Old Greg]

Odds are shortening but you can still get 21/10 on a Yes vote. Starting to look like a good bet.

[JustinTime]

Fly into Glasgow, take a whistle stop tour of Paisley, then head up to the highlands.

There are some nice buildings in Paisley. Yes, it's a tuliphole, but you'd never guess by just driving through it. The trip might take a couple of years off your life - a bit like a bus tour of Chernobyl - but the pictures will last a lifetime...