WE’RE pretty sure that somewhere today another news outlet will report on the call for a boycott of Tunnock’s by independence supporters. It’s rather depressingly inevitable.
The truth is that a handful of people did not take well the decision by Tunnock’s to drop the Lion Rampant from a logo on an advert in England. For most of us, it really does not matter or is indeed surprising. It’s advertising.
What the whole episode really shows is how pro-Unionist campaigners moved quickly to condemn those who called for a boycott and made it not about those fringes but the whole pro-independence movement.
“You never hear No campaigners calling for a boycott,” one prominent pro-Union blogger tweeted. And the truth is you never hear Yes campaigners calling for a boycott. Not really. You hear the crazed loons on the fringes of social media.
Pretending that their opinion is that of all independence supporters is more than a little tedious.
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