By Johnny Bossyman, Director of Fear and Terror

It is with deep regret that we record yet another Unionist critic of the Project Fear programme.

Now arch-propagandist Alan Cochrane, Scotlandshire Editor of the Telegraph, has cast doubt on the wisdom of constantly delivering "increasingly strident warnings" about the doom that would befall a separate Scotlandshire.

"They appear to have taken leave of their senses" said Cockers, claiming that the UKOK campaign was already won, and that the Unionists could relax their campaign of fear and terror. “The only thing the No campaign have to fear is Project Fear itself,” he quipped through a beard filled with invective and long-lunch spillage.

BBC Scotlandshire totally disagrees with these criticisms from the lily-livered forces in the Unionist camp who doubt that striking the maximum degree of fear and terror into the hearts of the people is the surest way to cement their loyalty to the glorious Union.

On the very next day, research by AXA Business Insurance revealed that 52% of Scottish Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) supported separation while only 33% thought it might disadvantage them. This clearly demonstrates that the current fear levels are hardly sufficient for their purpose.

Even more worryingly, last week's Optimism Index showed that SMEs in Scotland were the most upbeat about their futures. Given the devastation which separation would bring to Scotlandshire, this should not be happening. We must do better.

Even Brian (of Britain) Taylor - former spinster of this parish and three-time Scotch pie champion - suggested that the separatists were "gaining traction" with their charges of scaremongering. Quite what tractors have to do with the separation debate is not clear, but Brian may have been referring to the tiny and irrelevant Teuchter vote.

“Maybe, just maybe,” writes Taylor, “the Unionist chickens are coming home to roast. Maybe, just maybe, the unremitting diet of terror is beginning to scare the frighteners. Been there – done that – eaten that bridie.

“To be clear, tenebrously clear, project fear will not diminish, but the fears will become ever more familiar. 

“The UKOK supporters have little respect for the objects of their scaremongering and will pay little heed to the diminishing credibility of their creations. 

“From their perspective, Better Together and their allies are simply casting perils before swine.”

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