Campaigners anxiously await referendum results
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“Things will never be quite the same again and that has to be a good thing.”
“Whatever happens tonight and this morning, the whole campaign has made an incredible difference. It shows that people do care about politics if they think that their votes can make a difference. It has frightened a lot of politicians who claim to care what the people think but don’t really.
Dave Bremner was also tired after a long day. He had volunteered his services as a polling agent for the Yes campaign. He reported that in his home village of Garmouth the turnout had been a staggering 94%.
“I just hope that the vote goes the right way. Most countries have to fight to win their independence. We have had it offered to us. It would be a great pity for Scotland if we turned that down.”
He stated that 87% of those sold were ‘Yes’ bottles. “I don’t know what that proves,” he said. “Either Yes supporters drink more beer or they support local businesses more.
Lewis is a director of the Brewmeister Brewery in Keith and signed the Businesses for Scotland declaration. He also put his professional skills to work by creating two beers especially for the referendum – 1 labelled ‘Yes’ and the other ‘No’.
“I think a lot of people have only made up their minds at the last moment. We were standing in the town’s Yes office when we heard a church bell at 10pm and the realisation came that it was over – the polling stations had closed and there was nothing more we could do. It’s been a long, hard fight. I will be glad to get my life back and have evenings to myself again.”
“I asked ‘when did you decide this?’, and she said, ‘last night’.
“I have spent the day calling in on people who said they were still undecided, and offering people lifts to the polling stations. Alex Salmond said everybody should aim to convince at least one person to vote Yes, and I managed to do that. My proudest moment of the whole campaign came this morning when I spoke to an English woman who said that although she felt British she was going to vote Yes because it would be good for Scotland.
Lewis Shand is wearing his ‘Yes’ badge on his jumper and has been out and about in his hometown of Keith.
They are nervous because the result is so near at hand, and tired because a large percentage of them have been campaigning all day, and many days and weeks before.
The whole upstairs has been hired out for the night by ‘Yes’ campaign supporters.
It’s nearly 1am and there’s a lot of tired and nervous people at the Town House in Buckie.
