The Herald
THE language of the home rule campaigners of a decade ago was harnessed last night in the cause of a fully sovereign Scotland as the Independence Convention was launched in Edinburgh on St Andrew's Day.
Modelled unashamedly on the Scottish Constitutional Convention which led to devolution, the new bandwagon began rolling with a claim by Alex Salmond, the SNP leader: "We must create a new culture of independence, a spirit of freedom in Scotland."
The leaders of the Greens and the Scottish Socialists were there to lend their weight to the campaign, as were representatives of business, showbusiness, and academe.
...For the Scottish Socialists, Colin Fox welcomed the convention and shared the advancing of the cause of independence, providing a forum for mapping out the route and... increasing the powers and procedures needed to establish an independent state."
