Who are Business for Scotland?

One of the more vocal anti-UK groups recently has been Business for Scotland. Perhaps more accurately called Bullshitting for Scotland, they have been quite prolific in their output of specious and disingenuous arguments and general statistics abuse. Their chief exec, Gordon MacIntyre-Kemp, is becoming a familiar name in the debate, but who are the rest? At least some of them are brave (or foolish) enough to have their names publicly associated with BfS in the "Member Profiles" section of their website, so I thought it might be interesting to put together a handy summary of these separatists and their businesses.

Name	Company	Business	Location	BfS Director
Adam Davidson	BoConcept	Furniture retail	Glasgow
Alex Grant	(retired)	Air travel	Edinburgh
Andrew Richardson	TaxAssist Accountants Elgin	Accountancy	Elgin
Andy Lamb	ECCS Group	Construction services	Armadale
Andy Lythgoe	Lythgoe Property Consultancy	Property	Glasgow
Ben Rogers	GFI Software	IT	Edinburgh
Bruce Alexander	Xeroshield	Insect control	Midlothian
Catherine McLean	(freelance)	Management consultancy	Edinburgh
Chris Chirnside	6 Degrees Networking	Business events	Edinburgh
David Dwyer	Inspire Web Development	IT	Perth
David Morrison	Broxburn Properties	Property	Dundee
Donald Maclean	Business Cost Consultants	Management consultancy	Glasgow
Doug Norris	Datec Technologies	Electronics recycling	Kilmarnock
Ekaterina Zelenkova	Glasgow Translate	Translation	Glasgow
Eunice Olumide	Enigmatic Production & Promotion	PR	Glasgow
Gary Sutherland	EmployEasily HR Services and Glasgow Business Hub	Business services	Glasgow
Gerry Wallace	GEM Lift Services	Elevator services	Glasgow
Gordon MacIntyre-Kemp	Intelligise	Digital marketing	Glasgow	*
Helen MacDonough	Kennedy + Co	Hairdressing	Glasgow
Iain Taylor	e-corporate	Legal services	Aberfeldy
Ian McDougall	McDougall Johnstone	Accountancy	Glasgow	*
Ivan McKee	Greenfold Partners	Management consultancy	Leigh, Lancs	*
Jamie Rae	Jamie Rae Associates	Management consultancy	Falkirk
Jim Osborne	(retired)	Insurance
John Cooke	Mobile Operators Association	Telecoms	Aberdeen
Ken Cairnduff	Cairnduff Developments	Property	Glasgow
Ken McNeil	McNeil Stevens Financial Planning	Financial services	Glasgow
Les Meikle	Wise Property Care	Property services	Glasgow	*
Malcolm Wadia	PlySim	Software	Edinburgh
Mark Lister	Lister McDonald	Management consultancy	Edinburgh
Martin Jack	Think Different Events	Event management	Glasgow
Michelle Roger	Tartan Cat and Bloom VC	PR and crowdfunding	Glasgow
Michelle Thomson	Your Property Shop	Property	Stirling	*
Paul Fletcher	Enabling Innovation Partners	Management consultancy	Glasgow
Peter Syme	Splash White Water Rafting and Perthshire Paintball	Leisure	Aberfeldy
Philip Stewart	Kangaroo Print and Advertising	Printing	Dundee
Rachel Homes	Napier University	Academic	Edinburgh
Ricky Nicol	Commsworld	Telecoms	Edinburgh
Sarah Jane Walls	The Residence Glasgow and Transdynamic	Leisure	Glasgow
Sheila McLean	(freelance)	Project management	Glasgow
Susan Robertson	Write Word International	PR	Glasgow
Willie Wilson	Thistle Pharmacies	Pharmacy	Glasgow

So what conclusions can we draw from this? Certainly the preponderance of Weegies shows BfS to be a very Glasgow-centric organisation. Not many could really claim to be "captains of industry". There are also more than a smattering of PR agents and those who could be termed "management consultants" (definition: someone who borrows your watch to tell you the time, and then keeps your watch), people who are presumably quite adept at slick patter and "talking the talk". These, of course, are exactly the people you would want in a political pressure group, regardless of what variety of axe you have to grind.

Oh, and the eagle-eyed among you will notice that Ken Cairnduff is still listed as a member. Even after announcing he had become an undecided voter last September. How odd.