NESNO's Tooley and Daley do well in Alnwick

Another Journal sponsored debate in Alnwick last night brought an audience of over a hundred people to listen to John Hall and John Cresswell of the Yes Campaign come up against Professor James Tooley and Conservative Councillor Wayne Daley of the No Campaign.

At the entrance to the event there were a few demonstrators with 'Tory Boy' masks on saying that the No Campaign were just London Tory Boys. The No Campaign from the Peoples' Republic of Sunderland politely corrected their generalisation ;-)

The audience cut into Sir John and on a couple of occasions he looked for help to the audience and to an embarassed Professor Tomaney. At one point the Professor went visibly red and stuttered and stumbled when he was forced to explain that the Assembly didn't have the power to cut Council Tax. A question which had Sir John flummoxed. The reality is beginning to dawn on Sir John that this is merely a political project and that an assembly will be politicised despite his best intentions to fight as an Independent.

NESNO's Tooley and Daley were very competent and confident and the only argument the Yes supporters have left is that the No campaign has no alternative.

Well, we have offered an alternative, it was covered in the Journal in a full page article months ago and we are also prepared to sit down with the Yes camp after the region delivers a NO vote.
Wayne endorsed this from the platform and we can maintain the momentum that the referendum has begun to generate...and hope that the people on both sides have the North East at heart and not just political careers.

To read the report in the Journal about how the No vote won the day please click here.