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Scottish Independence: SNP Spring Conference: Sturgeon speech; Nicola Sturgeon MSP (Deputy First Minister) speech SOT- Fellow nationalists,We gather here in Aberdeen today with just over five months to go to the biggest and best opportunity we will ever have to build a better country.I doubt if our predecessors, presiding over the birth of our Party exactly 80 years ago this week, would have intended it to take us quite so long to get here.But, friends, here we are, standing at last on the threshold of our nation's independence.Of course, we wouldn't and couldn't have come this far without the toil, the occasional tears and the hard-won triumphs of generations of nationalists who have gone before us.Last year, we said farewell to Aberdeen’s very own Brian Adam and to my dear friend and election agent, Allison Hunter - two nationalists who, in my book, are simply irreplaceable.And just last week we lost an icon of our movement, the one and only Margo MacDonald.Margo electrified Scottish politics when she won Govan in 1973. Her contribution to Scotland and to our cause has been immeasurable.She was, truly, an independent spirit and we will not see her like again.Conference, let us pay tribute to Margo MacDonald.Brian, Allison and Margo - dear to us as they were - are three names amongst many.There are countless nationalists who paved the way but who didn't live to see the final stage of this journey.To each and every one of them who worked so hard for so long to give our generation the chance to see our dream realised, let us say a simple and heartfelt 'thank you'.Of course, the best way to say 'thank you' is to win.So let us also make this declaration today.On the 18 September, we do intend to win a Yes vote.We are going to win our independence.Delegates.The momentum is now clearly and firmly with Yes.But if we are going to deliver on that declaration, we have much work still to do.Our job is to persuade our fellow Scots...