Collapse in oil revenue is main change since 2014 not Brexit

Sir, The recent demand for another referendum is based on a serious misrepresentation of the previous vote.

In 2014 we voted to stay in the UK, not because of Europe but because it has been our country for the last 300 years, our main market and source of support for higher levels of public spending when our revenues fall.

The main change since 2014 is not brexit but the total collapse of the oil revenues which Mr Salmond promised would be worth nearly £10 billion.

Had we voted yes we would have been out of the EU anyway which is why the grievances sound so false. In 2016 we voted for the UK to remain but this had to be a UK wide vote. We didn’t vote for Scotland on its own to remain which is a very different thing.

If we seek membership on our own we will have to join the euro and submit to the European central bank.

We will pay a membership fee and will receive no fiscal transfer as we do from the UK. Instead we will be ordered to cut spending to balance the books, a very strange form of independence.

There are other things to consider too, the UK spaceport can’t possibly come to Kintyre unless we are in the UK. Another referendum will destroy Scotland reopening all the old divisions and further damaging business confidence. David Barbour, Southend.