 | 'Mike will be wearing his underpants outside his trousers soon.' Christine Grahame MSP, 8 th August 2004. |  |
| 'Mike will be wearing his underpants outside his trousers soon.' Christine Grahame MSP, 8 th August 2004. | |
Alex Salmond MP and Nicola Sturgeon MSP, candidates for the Leader and Deputy Leader of the SNP, have today (Wednesday) urged people in Scotland to "join us" in their campaign to win the Scottish Parliament elections in 2007 and take Scotland forward to Independence.
Mr Salmond and Ms Sturgeon were speaking as they launched their joint campaign website, www.salmond-sturgeon.com, which is the first of any of the candidates in the leadership contest to provide a direct link for people to join the SNP.
The pair are using their campaign website to launch a drive for new members and seize the opportunity of heightened interest in the SNP to recruit more members.
Mr Salmond said:
"Nicola and I are standing as a team because we believe that, together, we can take the SNP and Scotland forward. And we are asking people the length and breadth of Scotland to come and join us in our campaign. It is a campaign that is about so much more than the leadership of the SNP - it is a campaign to free Scotland from the complacency and the poverty of ambition that characterise the Labour-Liberal government.
So I am asking everyone in Scotland to come and join Nicola and I as we campaign for the powers to lift pensioners out of poverty, give our young people the opportunities they deserve and make Scotland's voice heard in the world."
Ms Sturgeon added:
"Alex and I are determined to rebuild the SNP and make it a powerful, campaigning force for change in Scotland. That is why it is so important that, even during this leadership contest, we reach out to the wider public, to the hundreds of thousands of ordinary Scots who feel so let down by Labour, and ask them to join us in moving Scotland forward.
Our website gives people the opportunity to join the SNP and become part of the campaign for Scotland's future."
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