SNP proves again that talk is cheap
NICOLA Sturgeon told the Spanish Government in Madrid that the ‘democratic will of the people of Catalonia’ must be respected. The question is: where does ‘self determination’ or people’s democratic rights begin and end? In the 2014 Scottish Independance Referendum, around 70 per cent of the East Lothian electorate who voted, voted No. Had the rest of Scotland voted a majority Yes vote, would Sturgeon have insisted East Lothian be allowed to remain part of the UK? I think not. So, where does democracy start and finish? A region? A county? A city, town or village? A district, street or perhaps even a house? Surely if the majority of the electorate in any of these places votes in a particular way, their democratic rights need to be upheld. NEIL INNES, Port Seton.
TYPICAL of Nicola Sturgeon at the SNP Conference to resort to a cheap stunt using a packet of cough lozenges to score points against Theresa May. This sort of behaviour may appeal to her band of sycophants but to those of us with a sense of decorum it is petty behaviour unbecoming of someone aspiring to be a top politician. NORMAN HILL, Aberdeen.
AT LAST! A voice of reason from the SNP camp. Kenny MacAskill tells Nicola Sturgeon (and the rest of us) that if she held a referendum any time soon she would ‘lose, and lose badly’. This will not go down well with the Nationalist masses who have been left in a holding pattern in the stacks above Prestwick Spaceport. Miss Sturgeon knows that she has to keep the possibility of an imminent referendum alive in order to retain their support and enthusiasm. But even she must know by now that the game is up. All the stars were aligned for the SNP in 2014, but they still lost. There will not be another chance like that again — not, at least, in this generation. JILL STEPHENSON, Edinburgh.
FINANCE Secretary Derek Mackay is, we are told, ‘a rising star’. This must be on the basis that he is a fast learner. He quickly picked up the SNP’s top trick when he got in trouble over their promised cut to air passenger duty — blame Westminster! Well played, Derek. Nicola Sturgeon will be delighted. Trouble is, we voters see through this nonsense. F. LECKIE, Glasgow.
I SEE ‘Progress’ was the SNP’s conference campaign slogan. So when is Nicola Sturgeon going to start to attempt to progress anything except her own teenage UK break-up dreams? MARTIN REDFERN, Edinburgh.