Scotland Matters Letters

At last week’s First Minister’s Questions, Nicola Sturgeon used statistics to “prove” all was well with Police Scotland. Figures now released show a 50 per cent fall in applications to join the police. There were 5,611 applications in 20-21 and this has fallen to 2,237 in 21-22. Where stand Ms Sturgeon’s answers now? This constant lack of information or selective use of facts is the hallmark of a Government that is being opaque rather than transparent. It is like the £2 billion-plus black hole in Scotland’s finances this year and the utter lack of any detail in Ms Sturgeon’s independence referendum bid. Political pundits never predict the end of SNP rule in Scotland, but for how much longer can this be justified? Dr Gerald Edwards, Glasgow.

SCOTLAND MATTERS reached well over 1 million people at the Holyrood election, 1.4m at the Council Elections and in both elections the SNP’s vote and seats won were far below their own predictions.

Now they want another referendum in October 2023. We need to:

Hammer home their failures – trains, ferries, schools, NHS, jobs, deficit, housing, drugs – and Scotland’s decline since 2007.
Highlight the issues: the border, currency, NATO, pensions, the £180m debt, the COST and UPHEAVAL to all Scots.
Get the message to every one of Scotland’s 4.3m voters.
AND BOYCOTT any illegal IndyRef2!!

However, this costs a LOT of money. PLEASE CONSIDER DONATING TO OUR CROWDFUNDER AND LET’S DERAIL INDYREF2 TOGETHER!!

If I hear the phrase “Scotland has a government it didn’t vote for” one more time, I’ll lose the will to live. Right now I have a Scottish Government I didn’t vote for, and if the Braveheart warriors ever win their independence battle, I’ll still have a government I didn’t vote for -and worse still, I’ll be living in a country I used to like living in. Sturgeon’s annual statements on independence and weekly statements on being shackled by Westminster, along with her undisguised hatred of the Tories and royalty, are utterly boring. A look at her face in the picture with the pink Barbie Doll suit says it all as far as royalty goes. For goodness sake, Nicola, you’re only fooling your own supporters – the rest of us see right through you. Ian Balloch, Naismith Court, Grangemouth.

If Scotland is ever to support itself as an independent country it is of fundamental importance to our economy that we have several high-growth technology companies here. Indeed the SNP say establishing such companies has always been a major priority of theirs. After 15 years in power can they explain why, in The Sunday Times list of Britain’s fastest-growing private companies, only two are Scottish? Yorkshire alone has more than three times as many. Of the two Scottish companies one sells pizza ovens and the other is a beer club. There are no technology, bio-science or manufacturing companies to be seen – even the pizza ovens are made in China. This is an appalling indictment of the SNP government and their complete lack of understanding of industry and entrepreneurial business start-up. However, at least in our poverty-stricken future we will be able to drown our sorrows at beer and pizza parties. Dr Richard Marsh.

Neil Mackay in his role as marriage guidance counsellor (“Unionist anger and contempt will see this UK marriage fail”, The Herald, July 5) really needs some counselling. He states: “One half of the couple – the one who wants to leave – has a whole load of ideas about what they want to do with their life. They’ve looked at the past and decided it’s not worth saving they’ve looked at the present and deemed it a mess; and they’ve thought about the future – they just don’t want to spend the rest of their life in a relationship that’s dead to them.” I suggest it is the “one who wants to leave” who has well and truly killed the relationship. It has used every possible reason to criticise, blame, attack, condemn the other party in the relationship for every one of its own shortcomings and failures – and boy does it have shortcomings and failures. In any marriage, each party has to work very hard to make a success of the relationship but we have ample evidence, despite being handed a tremendous start (devolution), that the SNP has totally squandered its chances to make this marriage work. The people of Scotland need to be reminded time and time again that virtually every aspect of Scottish life has been trashed on the altar of independence and if the relationship is “dead”, it is clear to the majority who killed it. Douglas Cowe, Newmachar.

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