Galloway opposes Scots independence

Galloway said he opposes independence but backs a second question on “full economic powers short of secession”.

First Minister Alex Salmond has not ruled out including a second referendum question on greater economic powers for the Scottish Parliament for those who vote No to independence, commonly described as devo-plus or devo-max.

“I’m a pretty well-known opponent of independence and I’ll certainly be campaigning hard against it”, Galloway wrote in Scottish politics publication Holyrood Magazine.

“Alex Salmond, until recently a consummate operator, has sullied himself and surely damaged his party in the polls with the leaked emails about kissing and not telling with (media tycoon Rupert) Murdoch. When you trawl the gutter, you harvest the filth”, he wrote.

“But where we do agree, and I thought I’d never say this, is on the economy.”

“The Scottish government needs power over the economy, pulling the levers for the worthy rather than the wealthy, which is why I favour a second question option on the ballot paper, however it’s phrased and whatever it’s called”, Galloway said.

The Dundee-born politician, Galloway is a former Labour MP who returned to Westminster under his Respect platform in the Bradford West by-election in March.

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