“Do you agree that Scotland should be an independent country” is submitted to the Electoral Commission for 12 weeks of testing. Critics claim this wording is biassed towards a YES response. Sounds familiar. Research, it is also claimed, has shown that it will make little difference by the end of a two-year campaign what the wording is, by that time voters will be aware of the choice they are making. [‘SNP formally submits independence referendum question’ by Simon Johnson, Telegraph, 9 November 2012]
Woman for an Australian Republic, Adelaide Ironside, republican poet and artist 1831-1867
Self portrait 1855, Newcastle Art Gallery NSW
