I warmly welcome the news in the past week from the poll in the Daily Record that shows 25% of Labour voters are now planning to vote Yes in the referendum.
It is very encouraging and, for me, completely logical that grassroots labour supporters are seeing the chance of radical change to a political system at Westminster that has created more inequality, seen the introduction of food banks, maintained out-of-date weapons of mass destruction at huge costs and produced the horrendous situation where tax evasion and bankers bonuses seem to go unchallenged and the poor, the elderly, the sick, the unemployed, the disabled are penalised and made to pay the costs of an increasing and almost unserviceable mounting national debt.
One of the latest labour supporters who has come out for a Yes vote is Bob Holman, a very well-respected anti-poverty campaigner. Personally, this was great to see as Holman was James Keir Hardie's biographer. He wrote a fantastic biography about Hardie, called. "James Keir Hardie: Labour's Greatest Hero" which came from the perspective of Hardie's Christianity which he maintained shaped his socialist beliefs. As well as being the founder of the Labour Party, Hardie was also a believer in home rule for Scotland.
I hope that the Scottish Labour Party will unveil its plans in how it will play a leading role in the future of our country when the case for independence is finally won on September 18th and help deliver a fairer and more socially just Scotland.
Councillor Gordon Murray
