Elaine C Smith

Columnist

Latest articles from Elaine C Smith

Elaine C Smith: It's time for the tough questions and bridge-building that will take Scotland to independence

THE Scottish Independence Convention doesn’t call this series of conferences “Build” for nothing. We are very aware that winning a future referendum will not be easy and doing so will take huge amounts of very hard work. Scotland is still in an excellent position to move forward towards independence. But it is us – who have campaigned and marched for it – who have to take this encouraging starting point and build from there to success. As we all know, it’s not going to magically happen and there are many forces rallied against the mere idea of Scotland ever becoming an autonomous nation. We all know there is much work to do.