Sir, So we can all rest easy at night. Willie Rennie MSP is going to save us all from ourselves by cobbling together an improved devolution package.
As can even be seen in the polls, unionism is losing the argument hand over fist in everywhere but the most British nationalist of households. This, evidently, due to their appalling negativity and the clear BBC bias shown up last week in a university study.
So what does he come up with? Well he intends that we should have jam tomorrow. Well, pardon me, Willie, but isn’t that what you’ve been accusing the Scottish Government of doing for years with regard to independence? So we can add hypocrisy, too.
I suppose we should be grateful that it is at least a positive development, despite the fact unionist politicians rarely deliver on promises. With independence at least we get to make the decisions ourselves and if the government mucks it up we can dump them in the next election, unlike now at Westminster where no matter how we vote we can’t really change anything.
Does he really think the Scots will give up that opportunity and also the chance to be one of the richest countries in the world for a promise?
Willie, the Scottish people are awakening and are onto you and your self-serving colleagues aiding and abetting the Eton boys running the government. Not to mention that embarrassment in the Lords. Remember what happened to the boy who cried wolf once too often?
Don’t worry, though, there’ll be plenty jobs for you back in Rosyth Dockyard in an independent Scotland. We’ll have ships to build.
Brian Macfarlane. 10 Beck Crescent, Dunfermline.
Security is a worrying thought
Sir, Whilst I have never considered myself to be sufficiently well informed to express views on the many complex issues in the Scottish independence debate, as an ex-serviceman and having a basic knowledge of British history during the past 300 years which has welded the people of Scotland, England, Wales and Northern Ireland together in so many ways, my leanings have always been to leave well alone.
Watching “Britain’s Great War”, beautifully narrated by Jeremy Paxman recently on television, strengthened this opinion, especially from the view of security.
This question occurred to me: if Scotland had been independent in 1940, what chance would their independent armed forces have had in repelling an invasion by Hitler’s massive army, navy and airforce?
I fear the outcome would have brought much greater changes to Scotland and its people than that being pursued by the SNP’s “Yes” campaign.
Douglas Kidd. 40 Woodlands Park, Rosemount, Blairgowrie.
Out of the frying pan…
Sir, Many think Scottish separation could mean jumping from the frying pan into the fire. After the visit of Mr Carney from the Bank of England, we find that there are two fires under the pan.
Some time ago we also learned that if Scotland applies to the EU for membership under Article 48 instead of Article 49, it will be for Westminster to give Scotland permission to apply. So that’s three fires. And if Scotland does eventually gain entry to the EU it will be on unknown EU terms. Four fires.
How many windmills will have to be built to cure all that national warming, never mind the global stuff?
Malcolm Parkin. 15 Gamekeepers Road, Kinnesswood, Kinross.
How much has council spent?
Sir, Following recent correspondence in The Courier regarding the preparations for flooding in the Dundee area I decided to check on the internet the position regarding the Brothock Burn which passes my house and has been the subject of many discussions and visitations for many years.
I was astonished to find a plethora of reports going back to 2003 many of which had been prepared by consultants.
The cost of these reports, coupled with the staff salaries of the council’s engineers who have commissioned these reports as they are presumably too busy to do them in house, must come to hundreds of thousands of pounds.
So far, work on the Brothock amounts to zero and I suspect the same applies to most of the other locations investigated.
Contrast this with the efforts of a few members of Letham Grange Golf Club who, with a lot of common sense and very little money, decided to tackle the problem of flooding on a section of the course which has been problematic for years.
They have devised and constructed an attenuation and surface water control system which so far this winter has kept the problem area free from flooding and virtually removed the threat from some nearby houses.
It would be interesting to find out what the actual expenditure to date by the council comes to, but I doubt we will ever find out.
Robert Cumming. 5 Peebles, Letham Grange.
Does chicken fit the bill?
Sir, With reference to the debate over “Scotland’s national bird”; in the light of the referendum opinion polls as driven by the unionist “Project Fear” don’t you think that the chicken would be an appropriate choice?
Alex Rollo. The Post House, Main Street, Barry.