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It’s sad to see that despite the current Covid-19 pandemic, and the need for volunteers amongst various charitable organisations apparent now more than ever, that some people still have their heads buried deeply in the sands of constitutional change.

In the real world outwith The Scotsman Letters page, I haven’t heard anyone in my family, workplace, golf club or local pub talk about

independence for a long time.

Surely senior politicians like Gordon Brown, Keir Starmer, Jackson Carlaw and Willie Rennie can’t all be trying to “do Scotland down”? Has it ever occurred to nationalists that, just perhaps, these politicians care deeply for Scotland and do not want to inflict the damage on the Scottish people that independence would bring?

I can’t see there being any Indyref2 for at least the next 20 years, but even if there

were, and if hypothetically, the vote were in favour of independence, why would those in favour of the status quo accept the result when the SNP have never accepted the 2014 result? Personally, I would hoist the flag of St George in my garden and declare the land my property sits on part of England before I’d ever be part of an independent Scotland governed by the pretendy parliament at Holyrood.

ANDREW HAMILTON Forth Street, North Berwick

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