Poor sales tactic
Are we to believe that English customers would overnight be aghast at the sight of “Scottish produce” on food labels (it’s on whisky labels in the same stores)?
This goes beyond clumsy intervention; it’s a stark insult to English customers who enjoy Scottish products. Right now, they may be deliberately buying salmon knowing it to be Scottish, despite its UK label.
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Hide AdThis is only the latest in a series of false claims of businesses decamping from Scotland in the event of a vote for independence, but no one supermarket would be greatly missed; the others would absorb the trade, not to mention the custom of local people (they’re not all English, you know) who value and enjoy Scottish food.
It’s most likely that a major factor in Ukip’s recent electoral success was the relentless negativity and insults of opposing attacks on the party.
That same unintended consequence could well result from the equally determined use of manufactured fear by the No campaign.
Robert Dow
Ormiston Road
Tranent, East Lothian