Clichés are the best thing since sliced bread

The BBC website has had advance sight of Mr Salmond's big speech:

"We are six months away from a date with destiny and we have a great task in hand," Mr Salmond will tell the Perth gathering on Friday.
The politician will say that no-one in this world owes Scotland a living.
He believes the country must have a competitive edge so that it can reap its own harvest and ring its own tills.
"In our Scotland, everyone will get a square deal, a fair shout, and an equal chance," he will say.
"Certainly we will use markets to give Scotland a competitive advantage - but we are the masters of markets and not their servants."

Oviously the product of a cliché generator. Mr Salmond should be able to do better than this kind of vacuous nonsense.