James Cook

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Newscast · Old Newscast: The Scottish Independence Referendum (Part 1) · 22 Aug 2026 podcast

Nicola Surgeon arguably not, actually.

But um they they they were formidable politicians in that campaign.

And Alex Salmond was always an incredibly impressive media performer.

He always had an answer, he always had a clever line, he always had a standby, and he was quite often quite witty, quite funny.

You know, he would he he could handle a room well.

Nicholas Sturgeon was not the same sort of campaigner at all, but I think one of the striking

Things looking back is that Nicholas Sturgeon's world, she's from Ayrshire, from working class Ayrshire.

Alex Salmond's whole political career, although he was born in Linlithgow, his political career was in Murray in the northeastern rural Scotland.

That's the old base of the SNP.

You know, Perthshire, Angus, where I'm from, Moray, rural Scotland.

Part, in part, anyway, not entirely, but in part.

And he didn't deliver that in the end.

Those places voted against independence.

And Nicola Sturgeon did deliver her parts of the country, post-industrial, traditionally Labour voting, heartland Scotland, in large numbers, particularly Glasgow, voted for independence.

I think I'm not saying that it's as simple as that was his fault, but it is quite striking how that broke down geographically in the

Yeah.

Um focusing on the border.

Yeah.

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