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    Women Saying No: Making a Positive Case Against Independence
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    Women Saying No: Making a Positive Case Against Independence

    By Maria Fyfe

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    If a majority of us decide to vote YES on 18 September 2014, then that divorce from the rest of the UK is easy to do. No expensive lawyers. No cost except the travel to the polling station… No need to lift a finger. Just a cross on a ballot paper. But before you say, that’s great, think on… This is a decision we will live with for the rest of our lives, and our children’s and grandchildren’s, for maybe centuries to come.
    MARIA FYFE

    It’s been noted over and over again that women are more likely to vote NO in Scotland’s Referendum 2014. There has been endless speculation as to why this may be, but until now little expression of their views has been heard.

    In a series of essays arguing for a NO vote at the forthcoming Scottish independence referendum, 14 women varying in age, ethnicity, political views and life experience – including Maria Fyfe, Johann Lamont MSP, Sarah Boyack MSP and Fiona O’Donnell MP – come together to make a positive case against independence.

    With contributions from leading current and former politicians and citizens, Women Saying No presents the arguments against independence, from a female perspective, in an attempt to widen the debate.

    Praise for Maria Fyfe

    The book she has written is a gem. It zips along on a skilful mix of genuinely funny anecdotes, telling vignettes and perceptive political analysis. It serves future historians well too, for it will serve as a necessary counterbalance to the leadership-centric books and diaries which have followed the Tony Blair – Peter Mandelson years. But it has a more immediate attraction than that. The Nats gets a good pre-referendum kicking from Oor Maria. Recalling that the Nats used to call the Scots Labour MPs ‘the feeble fifty’ she points out the SNP were nowhere to be seen the night a last ditch Tory filibuster failed to halt the Minimum Wage Bill.
    ALASDAIR BUCHAN, TRIBUNE on A Problem Like Maria

    A feisty, irrepressible, red flag idealist… the only woman Scottish MP in a gang of fifty. She could not be bullied, bamboozled or bribed. She did not fit comfortably in to the Procrustean bed of a biddable Blair babe.
    PAUL FLYNN, THE HOUSE MAGAZINE on A Problem Like Maria

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLuath Press Ltd
    Release dateDec 1, 2014
    ISBN9781910324202
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    Maria Fyfe

    Maria Fyfe was born in 1938 in the Gorbals. During the Second World War she was evacuated to Ireland. On return to Scotland her family moved around and finally settled in Pollok, Glasgow, where she remained until her marriage to Jim Fyfe. She now has two sons, Stephen and Chris, and four grandchildren, Catriona, Jacob, Max and Peter. Maria worked in various roles in the secretarial and education sectors before her political career, gaining a 2:1 in Economic History as a mature student and awarded an Honorary Doctorate by Glasgow University for her work for women. She joined the Labour Party in 1960, where (after a ‘wasted year’ in Jim Sillars’ Scottish Labour Party) she has remained ever since. Maria was a Glasgow District Councillor from 1980 to 1987 and them Glasgow Maryhill’s mp from 1987 until she retired in 2001. Since retirement, Maria has remained politically active, most recently in the successful Mary Barbour campaign.

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