I wish Nicola Sturgeon would stop using Project Fear in her pursuit of Scotland staying within the EU whilst it is in the UK. There are plenty of positive things about being in the EU which she could use instead.

She could use many things like the following...

• Europe has been scarred by wars for centuries. With the creation of the European Coal and Steel Community, and its subsequent development into the European Economic Community, the European Community and then the European Union wars between the member states have ceased. The EU therefore helps keep the peace amongst the countries in Europe as it means as a member we are constantly in touch with other countries and working together to find solutions to pan European problems. 
• Is it not better for the UK to remain in Europe and continue playing a part in the European club than turning in on itself?
• In my opinion it is essential for there to some degree of pan European Government which deals with issues affecting the whole continent. Will leaving help this European Government which in its present incarnation is the EU do its work? The answer has to be a big fat NO.
• In a world dominated by multinational companies who want to produce things the cheapest way possible does it not make it essential to have a larger Governmental body to fight Europe's cause and stop a race to the bottom as far as wages, employment rights, health and safety at work, human rights go. The answer has to be YES. And is not better if we are a member of this organisation. The answer again has to be YES.
• I could go on.....but won't for brevity.

As an ex Yes Scotland campaigner who continues to fight for Scottish independence Nicola Sturgeon's use of this Project Fear tactic is at best an embarassment.

During the Scottish Independence campaign the SNP and Nicola Sturgeon quite rightly complained bitterly about these same tactics being used by the Better Together campaign on London's and David Cameron's instruction. These tactics amounted to largely unfounded scaremongering stories designed to make the electorate scared of Scottish independence.

One of the more light hearted attempts to fight Project Fear during the Scottish indyref

Now in the ITV European Union Referendum Debate on Thursday 9th June 2016 on ITV, STV and UTV she was quite happy to appear on the same platform with a representative of the Labour Party and the Conservative Party using this same Project Fear technique, this time against leaving the EU rather than the UK. This was even more embarassing given that she and other representatives of the SNP in this debate had even complained of the use of this technique during the earlier part of the Remain in EU campaign.

In my opinion Scotland's relationship with the UK is considerably more toxic than the one between the UK and the EU.

• This is because the EU is a voluntary club of countries who have agreed to share sovereignty to try to solve the European continents problems. The UK is cobbled together country which is dominated by one country i.e. England, and all sovereignty is retained in England and the Uks capital and its parliament in London. 
• The EU also does not demand that one of its constituent countries holds nuclear weapons on its behalf against the wishes of its devolved parliament and the majority of its people when they are considered too unsafe to be held in the one closest to its main parliament. 
• The EU does not like the UK does with Scotland lie and cheat to hide the size of its wealth in order to balance its books which the UK has done with Scotland since oil was discovered in the North Sea in the 1970s. The EU has no form on conning one its countries out of realising the value of its own natural resources. Please see this https://youtu.be/uzW63Qa18t8
• I could go on but I won't for brevity.

Has Nicola learned nothing from Labour's demise in Scotland since they shared the same platform with the Conservatives during the Scottish Independence Referendum or #indyref?

Will this damage her and the SNP like Labour during the indyref?

I am pleased to say I don't think will damage the SNP and Nicola Sturgeon as much as doing the same thing did for Labour and the Scottish indyref, simply because the EU referendum is not as important to Scots as the Scottish one, and the campaign is much shorter. Only time will tell as to how much damage this has actually done and how it will help or adversely affect the cause of Scottish independence.

After all, whether campaigners for Scottish independence like it or not, the cause of self determination for Scotland is at least currently caught up very closely with how well or badly the SNP and Nicola Sturgeon does.

She may be 'telling it as it is' which is what Humza Yousaf's opinion on the matter (was on Wednesday 15th June 2016 on facebook), and the Leave campaign may very well be an attempt at a right wing coup in the United Kingdom - see the following newspaper story from the Herald on Wednesday 15th June 2016. Nicola Sturgeon says Leave campaign is an attempted right wing coup . But that really doesn't explain why she is not talking up the positive of staying in the European Union at least equally.

I am at a loss as to why Nicola Sturgeon has decided to do this. Perhaps someone can enlighten me as I think it an extraordinarily dangerous move to make.

What Business for Scotland say about the effect of Brexit on Scotland.