Let’s stop Swinney’s Caledonia schemin’
IF anyone in Scotland still thinks independence is the answer to what ails our country they should look across the water to Northern Ireland and the daily problems they encounter as an internally divided island. Do we really want a new border created with passport controls, a nation divided? We would no doubt end up adopting the Euro, then becoming once again a vassal state of Brussels with open borders and free movement. Is this really the new Caledonia that we all want for our future and our children’s?
ANTHONY RICHARDSON, Stirling
WITH breathtaking arrogance the SNP continues to dismiss the result of the 2014 referendum and will keep agitating for another until they eventually win one. For nearly two decades they have proven themselves to be incapable of government or of delivering a sustainable economic plan for their so-called ‘independent’ Scotland – but they are experts at milking the gravy train at Holyrood, squandering taxpayers’ money and bribing the public with never-ending handouts and freebies. Our hard-working taxpayers deserve better than a third decade of being fleeced by mercenary SNP career politicians who are hell-bent on Scotland becoming a subservient state of dictatorial Brussels.
GEORGE EMSLIE, Aberdeen
I CAN’T be the only one worried by the fact the SNP passed legislation that allows anyone with the right to live in the UK, including those with only a temporary right, to vote in Holyrood elections. Surely that right should not be handed to temporary visitors including foreign students. The fact that ‘Anything but Honest’ John Swinney is more concerned with independence than actually trying to get the country back on an even keel tells you all you need to know about the SNP direction of travel. How many times do Swinney and his coterie of deluded fools need to be reminded that the EU would never accept a bankrupt Scotland into its warm embrace before the penny finally drops.
BRYAN WRIGHT, Greenock, Inverclyde
I SEE John Swinney is up to his usual double standards, this time in a press interview the other day. He accused the other parties of not being positive, using negative slogans and having a lack of policies. This from a party that gave us, ‘vote SNP to stop Reform’, ‘show London Starmer what we think of him’, to give just a few examples. WILLIAM BALLANTINE,
Bo’ness, West Lothian.
TOMORROW may well be a day of reckoning for Keir Starmer at elections in England and likewise for John Swinney at Holyrood. Both leaders have failed to implement the Supreme Court ruling on gender and wantonly continue to break the law. In Scotland, those who are still fantasising about independence have missed the point of this election. The promise of independence is a wearisome distraction Swinney has always used to garner votes from the gullible, with no intention of delivering. This election is not about independence, it is about ending the SNP’s ‘war against women’.
LYNDA HENDERSON, Inverurie, Aberdeenshire