SNP supporters accuse MI5 of rigging 2014 independence vote
Supporters of the Scottish National Party (SNP) allege the UK Security Service (MI5) manipulated Scotland’s 2014 referendum results.
SNP activists have authored a pamphlet describing how thousands of fake ‘No’ ballot papers were created right before last year’s September 18 crucial vote, the Telegraph reported.
The authors, nationalist activists from Argyll, first suspected the existence of the “McTernan Plan”, as they call it, on the night of the count.
The activists’ suspicions hardened when they learned that John McTernan, then a Labour commentator, had appeared on TV four days before the referendum, saying that “postal votes are running very strongly towards No.”
“I couldn’t work out how it was possible to interfere on any scale with the postal ballot,” Andy Anderson, one of the authors, told the Telegraph. “You need the ballot paper number, the signature and date of birth of the voter. Then it occurred to me. All that information went into a computer – and who’s at the other end of the computer in London? MI5.”
Now, Chris Bambery, journalist, author and broadcaster in London says the government lobbied against the Scottish independence through media and “lies.”
“Absolute lies were made by leaving British politicians and by media. For instance, the former Prime Minister, Gordon Brown claiming that Scots will be leaving themselves without pensions if they voted for independence, which is a lie.”
“I think over time the truth comes out of state involvement in that campaign in order to help secure No vote,” Bambery told Press TV’s UK Desk on Sunday.
The latest Telegraph report adds that during the campaign itself Jim Sillars, the former SNP deputy leader, said it would be “naïve” to imagine that MI5 was not “taking a role.” Official Electoral Commission research after the result found that 42 percent of Yes voters believed at least some vote-rigging had taken place.
The SNP has been the government of Scotland since 2007, with complete control over health, education and most other domestic policy, except welfare.
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