Most Scots want to stay in EU

Mr Robert Barman, with his ‘own look on the world’ bemoans the likelihood of more public Scot Nat politicking and hopes he can escape the “endless screen-hogging of the nationalists”.

Now that suggests he looks on their publicity seeking as boring, unnecessary and of limited interest. But isn’t that the reason Scot Nats see their struggle for independence as necessary?

I don’t support their position, despite being born there, but the fact remains the English have a very different take on their identity and Mr Barman’s condescending attitude is a fine example of rather arrogant complacency.

I wonder how he feels about the constant screen-hogging of nationalists in England, Nigel Farage to name but one?

The majority of Scots want to remain in the EU, unlike the majority of English, which is the reason for the SNP calling for another referendum in the first place.

Nationalism can be a destructive force wherever it grows, not just in the smaller parts of a united kingdom. Robert Kerr via email

The SNP deserves the criticism levelled at them by Robert Barman, yet it is time the Scottish electorate made up their mind as to what they really want.

On the one hand they elect a nationalist majority in their local assembly, but on the other reject the very independence which is the raison d’être of the party involved.

Many also seem to insist that they do not want to be ruled by Westminster, but are then keen that they be ruled by Brussels.

An independent Scotland in the EU is a meaningless slogan when the latter aims at the suppression of individual nations in the name of a single European state. Colin Bullen Douglas Road, Tonbridge